google-cloud-pubsublite
Google Cloud Pubsublite API client library
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. This is the official, actively maintained client for Pub/Sub Lite with low install friction, permissive licensing, no known vulnerabilities, and broad Python version support. Install it if you are building on Google Cloud Pub/Sub Lite; if you need standard Pub/Sub instead, use google-cloud-pubsub. Verify that Pub/Sub Lite's partitioned zonal model and usage caveats fit your workload before committing.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Google Cloud project with Pub/Sub Lite API enabled and authentication configured (service account key or Application Default Credentials).
- Low friction installation via pip; actively maintained with recent releases.
- Depends on standard Google Cloud libraries (google-cloud-pubsub, grpcio, google-api-core) and proto-plus, all widely used and stable.
License · maintenance · safety
Apache 2.0 (permissive) — Licensed under Apache 2.0 (permissive), allowing free use, modification, and distribution in both open-source and commercial projects with minimal restrictions.
last release 2025-12-16 (241 days) · last repo commit 2026-04-14 · 20 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 3,195,555 downloads/mo, #2,706 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install google-cloud-pubsublite
from google.cloud.pubsublite.admin_client import AdminClient
from google.cloud.pubsublite.publisher_client import PublisherClient
admin = AdminClient()
publisher = PublisherClient()- Whether the package supports async/await patterns or only callback-based publishing and subscribing.
- Performance characteristics and throughput limits compared to standard Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Whether automatic message batching and flow control are configurable.
What it is and what it does
google-cloud-pubsublite is the official Python client for Google Cloud Pub/Sub Lite, a managed messaging service that decouples message producers from consumers. It provides publisher and subscriber APIs to send and receive messages through topics, enabling reliable asynchronous communication between distributed applications.
Pub/Sub Lite differs from standard Google Cloud Pub/Sub by offering partitioned zonal data storage with predefined capacity, making it suitable for workloads with predictable throughput patterns. The library wraps the underlying gRPC API and depends on google-cloud-pubsub, grpcio, and google-api-core to handle authentication, transport, and protocol details. It supports Python 3.8 and later versions.
Use it for
- Building event-driven architectures where applications publish events to topics and multiple subscribers consume them independently.
- Implementing reliable message queuing for microservices that need decoupled, asynchronous communication.
- Streaming data pipelines where producers and consumers operate at different rates and need buffering.
- Real-time data ingestion systems that require partitioned storage with known capacity planning.
- Integrating with Google Cloud Dataflow or other GCP services for event processing workflows.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
This is the official, actively maintained client for Pub/Sub Lite with low install friction, permissive licensing, no known vulnerabilities, and broad Python version support. Install it if you are building on Google Cloud Pub/Sub Lite; if you need standard Pub/Sub instead, use google-cloud-pubsub. Verify that Pub/Sub Lite's partitioned zonal model and usage caveats fit your workload before committing.
Install
google-cloud-pubsublite on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction installation via pip; actively maintained with recent releases. Depends on standard Google Cloud libraries (google-cloud-pubsub, grpcio, google-api-core) and proto-plus, all widely used and stable.
Requires Google Cloud project with Pub/Sub Lite API enabled and authentication configured (service account key or Application Default Credentials).
License in practice
Licensed under Apache 2.0 (permissive), allowing free use, modification, and distribution in both open-source and commercial projects with minimal restrictions.
Quickstart
pip install google-cloud-pubsublite
from google.cloud.pubsublite.admin_client import AdminClient
from google.cloud.pubsublite.publisher_client import PublisherClient
admin = AdminClient()
publisher = PublisherClient()Verify before relying
- Whether the package supports async/await patterns or only callback-based publishing and subscribing.
- Performance characteristics and throughput limits compared to standard Google Cloud Pub/Sub.
- Whether automatic message batching and flow control are configurable.
Package facts
| License | Apache 2.0 permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.8 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 6 packagesgoogle-cloud-pubsubgrpciogrpcio-statusoverridesgoogle-api-coreproto-plus |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 241 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 3,195,555 / month, #2,706 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software LicenseOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Topic :: Internet |
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