# googleapis/google-cloud-node

Google Cloud Client Library for Node.js

Repository: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-node
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-cloud-node
Homepage: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs
Language: TypeScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: google-cloud, nodejs
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:52:53+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": 4502, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 2323}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3195, forks 704 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:48.321127+00:00)

## What it is
The official Google Cloud Client Library for Node.js, a monorepo containing idiomatic npm client libraries for interacting with individual Google Cloud Platform services such as BigQuery, Storage, Pub/Sub, and many more. It is maintained by Google and released under the Apache-2.0 license.

## Use cases
- access google cloud services from a node.js app
- upload files to google cloud storage in node
- query bigquery from javascript
- publish messages to pub/sub from node.js
- authenticate a node.js app against google cloud apis
- use google cloud vision or translation api in node

## When to choose
- you are building a Node.js or TypeScript application that integrates with Google Cloud Platform services
- you want official, idiomatic, well-maintained client libraries with stable releases and TypeScript support
- you need per-service npm packages so you only install the clients you use

## When to avoid
- you are targeting AWS or Azure instead of Google Cloud
- you need a generic REST client without the Google-specific abstraction
- your runtime is not Node.js (e.g., browser-only apps where some services require server-side credentials)

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: sdk, http-client, database-driver, auth, logging, monitoring, message-queue
- domain: cloud-computing, apis, developer-tools, backend, databases, big-data
- platform: cloud
- tags: google-cloud, gcp, client-libraries, monorepo, typescript, npm-packages, cloud-apis, storage, nodejs

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

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.321127+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 2026-08-30T07:24:53.475222+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-node (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:48.321127+00:00, sha 026b21acbf05)
  - homepage: https://cloud.google.com/nodejs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:38:53.563803+00:00, sha 47a34f3a8633)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.