google-cloud-translate
Google Cloud Translate API client library
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Yes. This is a production-stable, actively maintained official Google client library with no known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and low install friction. Install it if you need to integrate Cloud Translation into a Python application and have a Google Cloud project with the service enabled and credentials configured.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Google Cloud project with Translation API enabled, valid credentials (via google-auth), and Python >= 3.10.
- Low friction installation as a pure Python wheel.
- Active maintenance with recent release (53 days ago) and a large user base (top 1000 PyPI packages).
License · maintenance · safety
Apache-2.0 (permissive) — Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing use in most commercial and open-source projects with minimal restrictions beyond attribution and liability disclaimers.
last release 2026-06-22 (53 days) · last repo commit 2026-08-14 · 5,371 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 49,447,938 downloads/mo, #583 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install google-cloud-translate
from google.cloud import translate_v3
client = translate_v3.TranslationServiceClient()
result = client.translate_text(
request={"parent": "projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
"target_language_code": "es",
"contents": ["Hello world"]}
)- Whether the library supports all language pairs that the Cloud Translation API backend offers.
- Performance characteristics and rate limits when handling large batches of text.
- Whether async/await patterns are supported for concurrent translation requests.
What it is and what it does
This is the official Python client for Google Cloud Translation, a managed service that translates text between languages. It wraps the Cloud Translation API behind a Python interface, handling authentication, RPC serialization, and error handling so you can call translation methods directly from your code.
The library is built on Google's standard cloud client stack (google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, protobuf) and requires a Google Cloud project with the Translation API enabled and valid credentials. It supports current Python versions (3.10 through 3.14) and is actively maintained by Google. Use it when you need to integrate machine translation into a web app, batch-process multilingual content, or add language support to an existing service.
Use it for
- Translate user-generated content in a web application to multiple languages on demand.
- Batch-process document collections or content libraries for multilingual distribution.
- Build a chatbot or support system that responds in the user's preferred language.
- Localize product descriptions, help text, or metadata across an e-commerce platform.
- Analyze or index multilingual datasets by translating them to a common language.
Worth the install?
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Yes.
This is a production-stable, actively maintained official Google client library with no known vulnerabilities, permissive licensing, and low install friction. Install it if you need to integrate Cloud Translation into a Python application and have a Google Cloud project with the service enabled and credentials configured.
Install
google-cloud-translate on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction installation as a pure Python wheel. Active maintenance with recent release (53 days ago) and a large user base (top 1000 PyPI packages). Depends on standard Google Cloud libraries (google-api-core, google-auth, google-cloud-core, grpcio, proto-plus, protobuf, grpc-google-iam-v1).
Requires Google Cloud project with Translation API enabled, valid credentials (via google-auth), and Python >= 3.10.
License in practice
Licensed under Apache-2.0 (permissive), allowing use in most commercial and open-source projects with minimal restrictions beyond attribution and liability disclaimers.
Quickstart
pip install google-cloud-translate
from google.cloud import translate_v3
client = translate_v3.TranslationServiceClient()
result = client.translate_text(
request={"parent": "projects/YOUR_PROJECT_ID",
"target_language_code": "es",
"contents": ["Hello world"]}
)Verify before relying
- Whether the library supports all language pairs that the Cloud Translation API backend offers.
- Performance characteristics and rate limits when handling large batches of text.
- Whether async/await patterns are supported for concurrent translation requests.
Package facts
| License | Apache-2.0 permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.10 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 7 packagesgoogle-api-coregoogle-authgoogle-cloud-coregrpcioproto-plusprotobufgrpc-google-iam-v1 |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 53 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 49,447,938 / month, #583 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 :: 3.14Topic :: Internet |
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