# googleapis/google-cloud-go

Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go.

Repository: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-cloud-go
Homepage: https://cloud.google.com/go/docs/reference
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: google-cloud, golang, go, cloud-datastore, cloud-storage, cloud-pubsub, cloud-bigquery
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:51:39+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4499, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 2978}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4499, forks 1573 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:51.443379+00:00)

## What it is
The official Google Cloud Client Libraries for Go, providing idiomatic Go packages for accessing Google Cloud Platform services such as Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Firestore, and many more. It handles authentication via Application Default Credentials and offers high-level API abstractions that reduce boilerplate.

## Use cases
- access google cloud storage from a go application
- query bigquery datasets in go
- publish and consume pub/sub messages in go
- use firestore or datastore from a go backend
- authenticate to google cloud apis with service accounts in go
- call google cloud apis programmatically from go services

## When to choose
- you are building Go applications or services on Google Cloud Platform
- you want official, maintained, idiomatic Go clients for GCP APIs
- you need automatic authentication via Application Default Credentials

## When to avoid
- you are targeting AWS, Azure, or on-premise infrastructure instead of GCP
- you need a language other than Go
- you require a thin hand-rolled REST client with minimal dependencies

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: sdk, http-client, auth, database-driver, message-queue, object-storage
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, apis, backend
- platform: go, cloud, windows
- tags: google-cloud, gcp, client-libraries, bigquery, pubsub, cloud-storage, firestore, datastore, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- googleapis/google-cloud-go (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.443379+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:20:26.104352+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-go (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:51.443379+00:00, sha aad4e4ab6ae1)
  - homepage: https://cloud.google.com/go/docs/reference (fetched 2026-08-29T09:06:29.994631+00:00, sha c0dfc20582ee)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.