IBM Cloud API key

To use the foundation models Python library, you need an IBM Cloud API key.

Python pseudo-code

my_credentials = {
    "url"    : "https://us-south.ml.cloud.ibm.com",
    "apikey" : <my-IBM-Cloud-API-key>
}
...
model = Model( ... credentials=my_credentials ... )

You can create this API key using multiple interfaces. For full instructions, see Creating an API key

IBM Cloud IAM token

When you click the View code button in the Prompt Lab, a curl command is displayed that you can call outside the Prompt Lab to submit the current prompt and parameters to the selected model and get a generated response. In the command, there is a placeholder for an IBM Cloud IAM token.

For information about generating that access token, see: Generating an IBM Cloud IAM token

Parent topic: Foundation models Python library