gcloud

What it is and what it does

gcloud was a unified Python client library for multiple Google Cloud Platform services, providing idiomatic interfaces to Datastore (NoSQL database), Cloud Storage (object storage), Pub/Sub (messaging), BigQuery (data warehouse), Resource Manager, and Stackdriver Logging. It abstracted away the low-level REST API details and offered Pythonic object models for common cloud operations.

However, this package is deprecated and has been officially renamed to google-cloud on PyPI. No new releases will be made for gcloud. The last release (0.18.3) dates to 2016-09-23, making it nearly a decade old. Installing this package will not receive security patches, bug fixes, or support for new GCP services. Any new project should use the google-cloud package instead.

Use it for:

• Querying and storing entities in Google Cloud Datastore (legacy projects only)
• Uploading and downloading files from Google Cloud Storage buckets (legacy projects only)
• Publishing and subscribing to messages via Google Cloud Pub/Sub (legacy projects only)
• Running SQL queries against BigQuery datasets (legacy projects only)

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

Provides Python client libraries for Google Cloud Platform services including Datastore, Storage, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Resource Manager, and Stackdriver Logging.

No. Do not install gcloud. The package is deprecated, unmaintained since 2016, and officially superseded by google-cloud on PyPI. Any new project should use google-cloud instead. Existing projects using gcloud should migrate to the current package to receive security updates and ongoing support.

Install

gcloud on PyPI

pip install gcloud

uv add gcloud

poetry add gcloud

Installing gcloud

Before you install

High install friction; package is deprecated and no longer maintained. The description explicitly warns that this package has been renamed to google-cloud on PyPI with no new releases planned for gcloud. Last release was 2016-09-23, making it significantly outdated.

License in practice

Licensed under Apache 2.0 (permissive), which allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, but this is moot given the package's deprecated status.

Quickstart

# gcloud is deprecated; use google-cloud instead
# For reference, the old pattern was:
# pip install gcloud
# from gcloud import datastore
# entity = datastore.Entity(key=datastore.Key('Kind'))
# query = datastore.Query(kind='Kind')
# for result in query.fetch():
#     print(result)

This package is deprecated and unmaintained. Google has moved all development to the google-cloud package on PyPI. Installing gcloud will not receive security updates or bug fixes.

Verify before relying

• Whether any production systems still depend on gcloud 0.18.3 and what migration path exists to google-cloud
• Whether the repository remains archived or if any maintenance has resumed since the last recorded commit

Package facts

Evidence: gcloud-0.18.3.tar.gz

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