# googleapis/google-cloud-python

Google Cloud Client Libraries for Python

Repository: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/google-cloud-python
Homepage: https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference
Language: Python
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: python
Last push: 2026-08-26T23:30:12+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": 4600, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 0.0, "n_releases_24m": 3139}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5376, forks 1760 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:16.198798+00:00)

## What it is
The official monorepo of idiomatic Python client libraries for Google Cloud Platform services, covering APIs like BigQuery, Storage, AI Platform, and dozens more. It is the recommended way to access Google Cloud APIs programmatically from Python with high-level abstractions.

## Use cases
- access google cloud services from python
- query bigquery with python
- upload files to google cloud storage
- call vertex ai from a python app
- use pub/sub in python
- manage gcp resources programmatically

## When to choose
- you are building Python applications on Google Cloud Platform
- you want official, well-maintained clients with GA stability guarantees
- you need idiomatic Python abstractions over GCP REST APIs

## When to avoid
- you need Google APIs outside Google Cloud (use google-api-python-client)
- you work in a language other than Python
- you want a lightweight generic REST client without generated SDKs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: sdk, http-client, database-driver, api-framework
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, apis, big-data, machine-learning
- platform: python, cloud
- tags: google-cloud, client-libraries, gcp, api-clients, monorepo

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

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:16.198798+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 2026-08-29T17:58:41.540684+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:16.198798+00:00, sha c954828a03be)
  - homepage: https://docs.cloud.google.com/python/docs/reference (fetched 2026-08-29T08:52:48.294172+00:00, sha 390206a392fc)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.