#🔒 Chatbot API confusion

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cursive shoal
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Hii, I am working on a chatbot and i want to know how do i add api key,
in youtube i couldn't understand well.

errant canopyBOT
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@cursive shoal

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cursive shoal
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from google import genai
from google.genai import types
import chatbot

client = genai.Client()
chat = client.chats.create(model="gemini-2.5-flash")

print("Your Character is ready! You can start chatting now. (Type 'exit' to quit)")

user_input = input("Enter your message to the character: ")

while user_input.lower() != 'exit':
    response = chat.send_message(chatbot.prompt)
    print(f"{chatbot.choice_name}: {response.text}\n")
    user_input = input("Enter your message to the character: ")
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where do i add api and logic behind it
can anybody explain

waxen folio
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@cursive shoal do you know what website gemini-2.5-flash is coming from? do you have an account there?

the API key is so that your code knows which account you are. Your API key is both a username and a password, so once you have it, never post it in the server!!!

cursive shoal
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the youtuber didn't add an api key but his worked
how ?

waxen folio
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he probably had the api key in a .env file

cursive shoal
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I took a screenshot

cursive shoal
waxen folio
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is that your computer, or the youtuber's?

cursive shoal
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the youtuber's

waxen folio
cursive shoal
waxen folio
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on what website?

cursive shoal
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got it

waxen folio
cursive shoal
waxen folio
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the page I linked to also shows you how to store the api key in a .env file

cursive shoal
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waxen folio
# cursive shoal

you're showing a few characters of your API key. that's probably fine, but remember what I said about keeping your API key a secret.

cursive shoal
waxen folio
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if you post your API key in Discord, a bot will probably take it and start using it, and you will have to pay for whatever they do.

cursive shoal
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@waxen folio

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cursive shoal
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you want the code for it ?

waxen folio
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It's a keyboard interrupt. Did you do control+c?

cursive shoal
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where ?

waxen folio
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it says at the bottom.

cursive shoal
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let me try again without any interrupt

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worked

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thanks

waxen folio
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yw

cursive shoal
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the thing is i am learning to code and am new to this

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that's why i am asking silly questions

waxen folio
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it's okay
I hope you're enjoying the journey

cursive shoal
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it's a fun activity to do and me and my friend are working on a roleplay chatbot

waxen folio
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can I have the role of pope?

cursive shoal
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where multiple characters can talk
but for the mvp, we decided to do just one-to-one

cursive shoal
waxen folio
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yes

cursive shoal
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what is it, i am asking this ?

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never heard of this

waxen folio
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anyway, don't worry about it

cursive shoal
waxen folio
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what's your plan to handle multiple persons in the chat?

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with the LLM?

cursive shoal
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i was thinking of multiple chats for different character personality, the prompt will include the recent message from user and others and a whole summary of the chat that had happened

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multiple chats in the sense like multiple api, one for one character

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but mvp will be simple compared to that

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it will have one-to-one

errant canopyBOT
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