Python Client for Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API

Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API : Provides methods for detection, risk analysis, and de-identification of privacy-sensitive fragments in text, images, and Google Cloud Platform storage repositories.

• Client Library Documentation

• Product Documentation

Quick Start

In order to use this library, you first need to go through the following steps:

1. Select or create a Cloud Platform project.

2. Enable billing for your project.

3. Enable the Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API.

4. Setup Authentication.

Installation

Install this library in a virtualenv using pip. virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. The basic problem it addresses is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions.

With virtualenv , it’s possible to install this library without needing system install permissions, and without clashing with the installed system dependencies.

Supported Python Versions

Python >= 3.6

Deprecated Python Versions

Python == 2.7.

The last version of this library compatible with Python 2.7 is google-cloud-dlp==1.1.0.

Mac/Linux

 pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
source <your-env>/bin/activate
<your-env>/bin/pip install google-cloud-dlp 

Windows

 pip install virtualenv
virtualenv <your-env>
<your-env>\Scripts\activate
<your-env>\Scripts\pip.exe install google-cloud-dlp 

Preview

DlpServiceClient

 from google.cloud import dlp_v2 
client = dlp_v2 
. DlpServiceClient 
()

name = 'EMAIL_ADDRESS'
info_types_element = {'name': name}
info_types = [info_types_element]
inspect_config = {'info_types': info_types}
type_ = 'text/plain'
value = 'My email is example@example.com.'
items_element = {'type': type_, 'value': value}
items = [items_element]

response = client. inspect_content 
(inspect_config, items) 

Next Steps

• Read the Client Library Documentation for Cloud Data Loss Prevention (DLP) API to see other available methods on the client.

• Read the Product documentation to learn more about the product and see How-to Guides.