Getting started with the Gemini Interactions API

This article provides a comprehensive guide to getting started with Google's Gemini Interactions API, the primary interface for Gemini models and agents. It covers setup with a free API key from Google AI Studio and the @google/genai npm package. Key features demonstrated include basic text generation, streaming responses for real-time output, multi-turn conversations with automatic history management, and multimodal understanding supporting images, audio, video, and documents. The guide uses JavaScript examples and references Python and REST alternatives. It is a technical tutorial aimed at developers integrating Gemini capabilities into applications.