Adding API Keys

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Adding API Keys

Configure LLM API keys to enable semantic extraction of markdown, documentation, PDFs, and images for the full graph.

🔑 Supported Providers

Provider	Environment Variable	Model (default)	Free Tier
Google Gemini	`GEMINI_API_KEY` or `GOOGLE_API_KEY`	`gemini-1.5-flash`	60 req/min, 1M tokens/day
OpenAI	`OPENAI_API_KEY`	`gpt-4o-mini`	$5 credit new accounts
Anthropic	`ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`	`claude-3.5-sonnet`	None
Moonshot (Kimi)	`MOONSHOT_API_KEY`	`kimi-k2`	Generous
DeepSeek	`DEEPSEEK_API_KEY`	`deepseek-chat`	Generous

⚙️ Configuration Methods

Method 1: Shell Profile (Recommended - Persistent)

1# Add to ~/.bashrc, ~/.zshrc, or ~/.profile
2export GEMINI_API_KEY="your-api-key-here"
3
4# Reload
5source ~/.bashrc
6
7# Verify
8echo $GEMINI_API_KEY

Method 2: Project .env File (Per-Project)

1# In project root
2cat > .env << 'EOF'
3GEMINI_API_KEY=your-api-key-here
4EOF
5
6# Or use .env.local for secrets (gitignored)
7echo "GEMINI_API_KEY=your-api-key-here" > .env.local

Graphify auto-loads .env, .env.local, .env.*.local from project root.

Setup Guide

hello@ghafoorsblog.com (AG Sayyed) — Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Setup Guide

Complete installation, configuration, and troubleshooting for Graphify.

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites Check

1# Check Python version (3.10+ required)
2python3 --version
3
4# Check uv availability
5which uv
6# If not installed: curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

Install Graphify

 1# Install via uv (recommended - isolated, fast)
 2uv tool install graphifyy
 3
 4# Verify installation
 5graphify --version
 6# Output: graphify 0.1.x
 7
 8# Install local LLM model (~2 GB, one-time)
 9graphify install
10# Downloads model to ~/.cache/graphify/
11# Creates ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md with instructions

Alternative: pip install

1# If uv not available
2pip install graphifyy
3graphify install

⚙️ Configuration

Project-Level (recommended)

Create .graphifyignore in project root to exclude paths:

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Adding API Keys

Adding API Keys

🔑 Supported Providers

⚙️ Configuration Methods

Method 1: Shell Profile (Recommended - Persistent)

Method 2: Project .env File (Per-Project)

Setup Guide

Setup Guide

🚀 Installation

Prerequisites Check

Install Graphify

Alternative: pip install

⚙️ Configuration

Project-Level (recommended)