{"categories":[{"label":"Internet","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/internet/6"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Python client library for the Google Maps Routes API, enabling programmatic access to routing, directions, and route optimization services on Google Cloud Platform.","skillfed_tags":["google-cloud","maps-api","routing"],"use_cases":["Build a delivery or logistics platform that computes optimal routes between multiple stops.","Add turn-by-turn directions to a travel or mapping application.","Integrate route planning into a backend service for ride-sharing or fleet management.","Compute distance matrices or travel times between locations for analytics.","Automate route optimization in a batch processing pipeline on Google Cloud."],"what_it_does":"This is the official Python client for Google's Routes API, a managed service on Google Cloud Platform that computes routes, directions, and optimized paths. It wraps the underlying gRPC and REST endpoints with a Pythonic interface, handling authentication, serialization, and error handling transparently. The library depends on google-auth for credential management, google-api-core for common client patterns, and protobuf-based message types via proto-plus.\n\nYou use it when you need to integrate routing or directions logic into a Python application running on or connected to Google Cloud. Setup requires a GCP project, billing, API enablement, and valid credentials; once configured, you instantiate a client and call methods to compute routes. The library is actively maintained, supports modern Python versions (3.10+), and carries no known vulnerabilities.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you are building on Google Cloud Platform and need routing or directions functionality. The library is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and is the official client for the Routes API. Prerequisite: you must have a GCP project with the Routes API enabled and billing configured; the library itself is not useful without that infrastructure."},"id":"google-maps-routing","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/google-maps-routing","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/google-maps-routing.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/google-maps-routing/"},"maintenance":{"status":"active"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2026-06-03","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"google-maps-routing","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"Google Maps Routing API client library"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":77822,"position":14490,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"0.11.0"}