google-cloud-webrisk

What it is and what it does

google-cloud-webrisk is the official Python client for Google Cloud's Web Risk API, a security service that maintains constantly updated lists of unsafe URLs. It wraps the underlying gRPC and REST interfaces to provide a Pythonic way to query whether a given URL is known to be malicious, phishing, or otherwise unsafe.

The library depends on google-api-core, google-auth, grpcio, proto-plus, and protobuf to handle authentication, transport, and protocol buffer serialization. It is designed for production use (Development Status 5) and actively maintained by Google. Setup requires a Google Cloud project with billing enabled and the Web Risk API activated; once configured, the client handles authentication and communicates with Google's service to evaluate URLs in real time.

Use it for:

• Check user-submitted URLs before allowing them in your application or redirecting to them.
• Scan links in user-generated content (comments, posts, messages) for malware or phishing threats.
• Build security dashboards that report on URL safety across your organization's web traffic.
• Integrate URL validation into email or messaging systems to warn users about unsafe links.
• Audit historical URL logs to identify which links were flagged as unsafe after the fact.

Worth the install?

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Python client library for Google Cloud Web Risk, enabling applications to check URLs against Google's lists of unsafe web resources.

Yes. The library is production-stable, actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, and low install friction. Install it if you need to validate URLs against Google's threat lists in a Python application and have access to a Google Cloud project with Web Risk enabled.

Install

google-cloud-webrisk on PyPI

pip install google-cloud-webrisk

uv add google-cloud-webrisk

poetry add google-cloud-webrisk

Installing google-cloud-webrisk

Before you install

Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution. Active maintenance with recent releases (53 days since last update). Supports current Python versions (3.10 through 3.14).

License in practice

Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart

pip install google-cloud-webrisk

from google.cloud import webrisk_v1

client = webrisk_v1.WebRiskServiceClient()
# Check URL against Google's Web Risk lists

Requires Google Cloud project setup, billing enabled, Web Risk API enabled, and authentication credentials configured.

Verify before relying

• Specific latency or throughput characteristics for URL checking operations.
• Rate limiting or quota details for the Web Risk API calls.
• Whether the library caches results or always queries the service.

Package facts

Evidence: google_cloud_webrisk-1.22.0-py3-none-any.whl

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