googleapis/google-cloud-python
Google Cloud Client Libraries for Python
Is googleapis/google-cloud-python beginner-friendly?
In the last 30 days, googleapis/google-cloud-python merged 145 of 279 pull requests from outside contributors, and its maintainers usually reply within 1 day. 18 beginner-friendly issues are open now.
- Stars
- 5.4k
- Forks
- 1.8k
- Open beginner issues
- 18
- Indexed issues
- 515
- Avg merge
- 2d 7h
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 173
- Dominant language
- Python
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Last GitHub push
- Nov 12, 2026
- Latest indexed
- Sep 16, 2026
- Contributing guide
- Contributing guide
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How to contribute to googleapis/google-cloud-python
- Read the contributing guide first: it says how the maintainers want changes proposed, tested and reviewed.
- Read its code of conduct: it covers issues and pull requests as well as chat.
- Your contributions will be published under the project's Apache-2.0 license.
- Pick one of the 18 open beginner-friendly issues below and comment that you want to work on it before you start.
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googleapis/google-cloud-python#19079 ·
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api: spanner
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#19072 ·
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auth next major: breaking change
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 57/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18870 ·
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api: bigquery type: feature request
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18804 ·
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auth priority: p2 type: feature request
Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18800 · 3 comments ·
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[spanner and sqlalchemy-spanner] Assess approaches to avoiding naming collisions.May be free again @sakthivelmanii claimed this 31 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openapi: spanner type: feature request
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18670 · 1 assignee ·
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Remove conditionals related to google-api-core versions, once we no longer support older versions.Opentype: cleanup
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18657 ·
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Record streaming attempt and front-end metrics when PartialResultSet.last=True is observedMay be free again @olavloite claimed this 31 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openapi: spanner
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18656 · 1 assignee ·
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storage: zero-copy BidiReadObjectResponse parsing and off-loop CRC32C verification for async multi-range readsMay be free again @chandra-siri claimed this 33 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openapi: storage priority: p2 type: feature request
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18629 · 1 assignee ·
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api: spanner type: feature request
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18584 ·
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bigtable: client-side metrics shutdown export fails with "written more frequently than the maximum sampling period" when the process exits within ~30s after a periodic exportMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Open
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 67/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18576 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18536 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18528 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18527 ·
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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18514 ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18439 · 1 comment ·
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google-cloud-storage: Failed to handle doubly-gzipped filesMay be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Openapi: storage priority: p3 type: bug
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18423 · 1 comment ·
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18412 · 1 comment ·
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ci: enable --strict flag in presubmit twine_checkMay be free again @ohmayr claimed this 44 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 76/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18339 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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priority: p2 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18314 ·
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Re-configure renovate botMay be free again @chalmerlowe claimed this 60 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openpriority: p2 type: process
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18287 · 1 assignee ·
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google-auth: Avoid auto-retrying 401s on streaming/non-repeatable payloads in sync HTTP transportsMay be free again @agrawalradhika-cell claimed this 73 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openauth priority: p2 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18238 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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bug: update the internal logic in resolve_feature_flagsMay be free again @chalmerlowe claimed this 80 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opentype: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18214 · 1 assignee ·
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PendingDeprecationWarning in google-cloud-bigquery-storageMay be free again @tswast claimed this 81 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openapi: bigquery priority: p2 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18181 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·
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Reinstate flaky botMay be free again @daniel-sanche claimed this 86 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openpriority: p1 type: feature request
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18171 · 1 assignee ·
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priority: p1 type: process
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18162 · 1 comment ·
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`google-cloud-storage`: background `BucketMetadataCache` request shares the upload transport and correlates with intermittent `SSLEOFError`May be free again @chandra-siri claimed this 87 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openpriority: p2 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18116 · 1 assignee ·
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api: bigquery priority: p3 type: feature request
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18047 ·
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[import-profiler]: remove import-profiler skip workaround once Python 3.15 is officially releasedMay be free again @hebaalazzeh claimed this 98 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openpriority: p3 type: process
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18035 · 1 assignee ·
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type: feature request
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17988 ·
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api: monitoring priority: p3 type: feature request
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17951 · 1 comment · 1 reaction ·
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[spanner] `run_in_transaction` raises uncaught `IndexError` when `Aborted.errors` is emptyMay be free again @steotia claimed this 105 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openapi: spanner priority: p2 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17903 · 1 assignee ·
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Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17883 ·
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api: firestore priority: p3 type: question
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17821 · 2 comments ·
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Remove setup_request_id fallback in generated packages when google-api-core >= 2.26.0May be free again @hebaalazzeh claimed this 115 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17813 · 1 assignee ·
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google-auth: connection leaks in urllib3 transport and metadata helper during mTLS updatesMay be free again @nbayati claimed this 35 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17755 ·
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[gapic-generator] Remove version check for `grpcio` from pqc showcase integration testsMay be free again @ohmayr claimed this 120 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17752 · 1 assignee ·
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type: process
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17710 · 1 comment ·
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priority: p3 type: docs
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17684 ·
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api: bigtable priority: p2 type: feature request
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17677 ·
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sqlalchemy-spanner: `alembic revision --autogenerate` failsMay be free again @olavloite claimed this 128 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openapi: spanner priority: p2 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17648 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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Add centralized path to mypy.ini in crc32cMay be free again @chalmerlowe claimed this 135 days ago, and no pull request is open. Opentype: cleanup
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17606 · 1 assignee ·
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tests.unit.test_database_session_manager.TestDatabaseSessionManager: test_partitioned_multiplexed failedMay be free again @sinhasubham claimed this 135 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openflakybot: flaky flakybot: issue priority: p3 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17598 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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tests.unit.test_batch.TestBatch: test_aborted_exception_on_commit_with_retries failedMay be free again @sinhasubham claimed this 135 days ago, and no pull request is open. Openflakybot: flaky flakybot: issue priority: p3 type: bug
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17597 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·
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gapic-generator: use `install_unittest_dependencies` in `prerelease_deps` and `core_deps_from_source`May be free again A pull request for this issue was closed without being merged. Openpriority: p2 type: cleanup
Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#17531 ·
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fix(google-auth): invalid TYPE_CHECKING imports in google/auth/_default.py cause Unknown types in PyrightPossibly taken @sakshamgoyal-01 claimed this today. Open
Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 25/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#19077 ·
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Unlike Java/JS, firestore's python transactions do not retry on invalid transaction errorsPossibly taken @pcbeingused333 claimed this today. Opentriage me type: bug
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#19063 ·
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Firestore's @transactional is not thread safePossibly taken @itsrayeedscodespace claimed this today. Opentriage me type: bug
Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#19060 ·
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google-api-core: AsyncBidiRpc.open() after the call ends leaves the previous request generator pending foreverPossibly taken @shaashankrg claimed this 4 days ago. Opentriage me type: bug
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#19030 · 1 comment ·
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Add Support for Container Credentials in AWS Federated AuthPossibly taken @chrisguitarguy claimed this 8 days ago. Opentriage me type: feature request
Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100
googleapis/google-cloud-python#18996 ·
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