do we have to setup a billing account in order to use the api key because no matter how many times I a generate an api key it says You must use an API key to authenticate each request to Google Maps Platform APIs
Api key problem
Hey @Utkarsh-Madaan-2559055747708288, no there is no need to setup up billing for using this API. The first few requests you make to this API are free of cost. After you exceed a certain number of requests in a day to this API, then you can incur billing at the end of the month. So just enable this API (without the billing account) , generate the key and use it in the code to make some requests and experiment yourself !
I hope this clears your doubt !
Happy Learning ! 
I have generated the api but still it says b’{\n “error_message” : “You must use an API key to authenticate each request to Google Maps Platform APIs. For additional information, please refer to http://g.co/dev/maps-no-account”,\n “results” : [],\n “status” : “REQUEST_DENIED”\n}\n’
Can you tell me the steps you followed to generate the API key in detail ?
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