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This sample demonstrates how to use the

[Cloud Tasks](https://cloud.google.com/tasks/docs/) client library.

`create_http_task.py` is a simple command-line program to create

tasks to be pushed to an URL endpoint.

`create_http_task_with_token.py` is a simple command-line program to create

tasks to be pushed to an URL endpoint with authorization header.

Please refer to [Setting Up a Python Development Environment](https://cloud.google.com/python/setup).

To set up authentication, please refer to our

[authentication getting started guide](https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/getting-started).

To install the dependencies for this sample, use the following command:

This sample uses the common protos in the [googleapis](https://github.com/googleapis/googleapis)

repository. For more info, see

[Protocol Buffer Basics](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/pythontutorial).

To create a queue (named `my-queue`) using the Cloud SDK, use the following

gcloud command:

Set environment variables:

First, your project ID:

Then the queue ID, as specified at queue creation time. Queue IDs already

created can be listed with `gcloud tasks queues list`.

And finally the location ID, which can be discovered with

`gcloud tasks queues describe my-queue`, with the location embedded in

the "name" value (for instance, if the name is

"projects/my-project/locations/us-central1/queues/my-queue", then the

location is "us-central1").

Set an environment variable for the endpoint to your task handler. This is an

example url:

Running the sample will create a task and send the task to the specific URL

endpoint, with a payload specified: