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google-api-python-client

🐍 The official Python client library for Google's discovery based APIs.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

google-api-python-client has 188.7M monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 2.198.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2011.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of google-api-core, google-auth and google-auth-httplib2. It is used by 1,911 tracked packages, including browser-use, google-adk and apache-airflow-providers-google.

Downloads
Day
5.8M
Week
43.2M
Month
188.7M
Stars
8.9K
Forks
2.6K
Issues
21
Version
2.198.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
85
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
188,661,534
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
188,661,534
Stars
8,871
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
• Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
6,178,009
Month daily avg
6,288,718
Momentum
-1.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache 2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
11 days ago
Total releases
286
Releases/year
18.6
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
258
Monthly downloads
188,661,534
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
95
 
Issue Burden
2.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.4M
macOS 64.7K
Windows 57.9K

Python Versions

3.12
31.4% 1.3M
3.11
26.8% 1.1M
3.10
23.1% 977.7K
3.13
15.1% 638.3K
3.14
3.7% 156.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
3.2M
2. IE IE
407.0K
3. SG SG
158.5K
4. IN IN
122.2K
5. JP JP
119.2K
6. DE DE
102.6K
7. NL NL
57.8K
8. CA CA
39.1K
9. GB GB
35.6K
10. BE BE
33.7K

Package Information

License
Apache 2.0
First Release
February 26, 2011
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
2.198.0
Total Releases
286
Contributors
258
Open PRs
29
Archived
No
Author
Google LLC
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
google api client
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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