googleapis/google-api-python-client
🐍 The official Python client library for Google's discovery based APIs.
Is googleapis/google-api-python-client beginner-friendly?
We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to googleapis/google-api-python-client to say how often they are merged. 5 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 9k
- Forks
- 2.6k
- Open beginner issues
- 5
- Indexed issues
- 27
- Avg merge
- 28m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 4
- Dominant language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last GitHub push
- Nov 10, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 17, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
- Code of conduct
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- Pick one of the 5 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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eMudhra/emSign CA compromise (October 2026): what Cloud SDK Python Libraries developers need to doOpen
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 15/100
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Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2825 · 1 comment ·
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Returned range name duplicates inner single quoteMay be free again @iam-ethan-huang claimed this 301 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openapi: sheets priority: p3 type: bug
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ERROR: 'OpenSSL.crypto' has no attribute 'sign'May be free again @chalmerlowe claimed this 220 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openpriority: p3 type: bug
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2554 · 8 comments · 22 reactions · 1 assignee ·
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priority: p3 type: bug
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
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Add type hints (and py.typed) for static type checkingMay be free again @parthea claimed this 850 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openpriority: p2 type: feature request
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2426 · 1 comment · 15 reactions · 2 assignees ·
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Samples are old and miss requirements.txtMay be free again @dizcology claimed this 927 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openpriority: p2 type: process
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2391 · 1 assignee ·
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priority: p3 type: feature request
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2321 · 8 comments · 9 reactions ·
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next major: breaking change type: feature request
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100
googleapis/google-api-python-client#1118 · 11 comments · 10 reactions ·
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fix: @_helpers.positional raises TypeError when decorating functions without default argumentsPossibly taken @codeXsidd claimed this 22 days ago. Open
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 88/100
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Disable prettyPrint by default for Google Sheets API responsesPossibly taken @pawciobiel claimed this 91 days ago. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
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Option to skip per-method docstring generation in build() (memory / high-concurrency)Possibly taken @rootkiller6788 claimed this 53 days ago. Openpriority: p3 type: feature request
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
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test: connection leak test test_discovery_http_is_closed is shadowed and syntactically invalidPossibly taken @Capstan claimed this 167 days ago. Open
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 75/100
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2757 · 1 comment ·
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test: strict positional parameter enforcement is ignored under pytestPossibly taken @Capstan claimed this 167 days ago. Open
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 92/100
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Audit samples and docs for references to old APIs (like G+).Possibly taken @Mudassir55 claimed this 152 days ago. Opensamples type: docs
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
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HTTP 400 / preconditionFailed should be retriedPossibly taken @ohmayr claimed this 151 days ago. Openpriority: p3 type: bug
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2723 · 1 comment · 2 assignees ·
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BatchHttpRequest Fails When Mixing files.modifyLabels and files.update MethodsPossibly taken @daniel-sanche claimed this 169 days ago. Openapi: drive priority: p3 type: bug
googleapis/google-api-python-client#2655 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·