---
id: google-gax
version: "0.16.0"
license: BSD-3-Clause
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# google-gax — Google API Extensions

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 83.7K/mo

## What it is and what it does

google-gax was a foundational library providing gRPC and Google API infrastructure for building client and server code. It offered utilities like page streaming and request bundling to simplify API surfaces for callers, and was typically used indirectly through code generated from Google API definitions rather than directly in application code.

The package is now fully deprecated and abandoned. Google has replaced it entirely with google-api-core, which provides the same functionality with active maintenance. The last release was in February 2018, the repository is archived, and no further development is planned.

Use it for:

- Maintaining legacy Google client libraries that were generated before the migration to google-api-core.
- Understanding historical Google API infrastructure patterns in older codebases.
- Studying gRPC integration patterns from an archived reference implementation.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides gRPC and Google API infrastructure utilities for client and server development, now deprecated in favor of google-api-core.

No. This package is deprecated and abandoned as of 2018. Do not install for new projects—use google-api-core instead. Only install if maintaining legacy code that explicitly requires it, and plan a migration to google-api-core.

## Install

pip install google-gax
uv add google-gax
poetry add google-gax

## Installing google-gax

Before you install: Low install friction, but the package is abandoned as of 2018-02-28 with no further development planned. The repository is archived and maintenance status is inactive.

License in practice: BSD-3-Clause permissive license allows use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install google-gax==0.16.0

from google.gax import create_api_call

# Typically used indirectly via code-generated clients
api_call = create_api_call(callable, settings)

Package is deprecated; google-api-core is the active replacement. No Python version constraint specified in metadata.

Verify before relying:

- Whether any active Google client libraries still depend on this package or have fully migrated to google-api-core.
- Compatibility with Python versions beyond 3.6 (last tested version in description).
- Whether the 8 runtime dependencies (dill, future, googleapis-common-protos, grpcio, google-auth, ply, protobuf, requests) have known vulnerabilities or breaking changes since 2018.

## Package facts

- License: BSD-3-Clause (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 83.7K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

grpc api client utilities, google api extensions, page streaming bundling, deprecated google api tools, grpc service helpers, google api conventions, api client framework, deprecated, grpc, archived

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