googletrans-py
Free Google Translate API for Python. Translates totally free of charge.
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
No. While the package is permissively licensed and has no known vulnerabilities, it is dormant (last release 1584 days ago), explicitly unmaintained, and reverse-engineers an undocumented API that Google may have changed. Use the official Google Cloud Translation API instead, or choose an actively maintained alternative if cost is the concern.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python 3.7 or later.
- Google's translation service may rate-limit or block requests; this package reverse-engineers an undocumented API and is not officially supported by Google.
- High install friction due to no runtime dependencies listed, but maintenance is dormant—last release was 1584 days ago.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license (permissive) means you can use, modify, and distribute the package freely with minimal restrictions, though you should retain the license notice.
last release 2022-04-13 (1584 days) · last repo commit 2024-04-28 · 51 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 73,878 downloads/mo, #14,916 on PyPI
Alternatives
Verify before relying
pip install googletrans-py
from googletrans import Translator
translator = Translator()
result = translator.translate('Hello', src_language='en', dest_language='es')
print(result['text'])- Whether the package currently works against Google's live translation service or if the API endpoint has changed since the last release.
- How reliably it handles rate limiting and whether it includes retry logic or backoff strategies.
- Whether httpx compatibility improvements mentioned in the description actually resolve all dependency conflicts in modern environments.
What it is and what it does
googletrans-py is a fork of the original googletrans library, updated to work with newer versions of httpx and httpcore. It provides a Python interface to Google Translate by reverse-engineering the web API, allowing you to translate text without needing an official API key or paying for a service. The package wraps HTTP requests to Google's translation endpoint and parses the responses.
The fork was created because the original project stalled at version 4.0.0rc1 (pre-release), and this version updates dependency compatibility. However, the maintainer explicitly states they have no intention to actively maintain the project and view it as a temporary workaround. Since the last release was over four years ago, there is significant risk that Google's service changes may have broken the underlying API calls.
Use it for
- Quickly translate text snippets in a Python script without setting up Google Cloud credentials or handling billing.
- Build a simple chatbot or educational tool that needs to display content in multiple languages.
- Prototype a translation feature before committing to an official, paid API integration.
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
No.
While the package is permissively licensed and has no known vulnerabilities, it is dormant (last release 1584 days ago), explicitly unmaintained, and reverse-engineers an undocumented API that Google may have changed. Use the official Google Cloud Translation API instead, or choose an actively maintained alternative if cost is the concern.
Install
googletrans-py on PyPI
Before you install
High install friction due to no runtime dependencies listed, but maintenance is dormant—last release was 1584 days ago. The package explicitly states the maintainer has no intention to actively maintain it and views this as a temporary solution.
Requires Python 3.7 or later. Google's translation service may rate-limit or block requests; this package reverse-engineers an undocumented API and is not officially supported by Google.
License in practice
MIT license (permissive) means you can use, modify, and distribute the package freely with minimal restrictions, though you should retain the license notice.
Quickstart
pip install googletrans-py
from googletrans import Translator
translator = Translator()
result = translator.translate('Hello', src_language='en', dest_language='es')
print(result['text'])Verify before relying
- Whether the package currently works against Google's live translation service or if the API endpoint has changed since the last release.
- How reliably it handles rate limiting and whether it includes retry logic or backoff strategies.
- Whether httpx compatibility improvements mentioned in the description actually resolve all dependency conflicts in modern environments.
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.7 |
| Install friction | High. Source build required |
| Runtime dependencies | None |
| Maintenance | Dormant 1,584 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 73,878 / month, #14,916 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 :: EducationIntended Audience :: End Users/DesktopLicense :: FreewareOperating System :: MacOS :: MacOS XOperating System :: Microsoft :: WindowsOperating System :: POSIXProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Topic :: Education |
Evidence: googletrans-py-4.0.0.tar.gz
Tags
Let your AI agent find packages like this
Example. Real query, live index.
You found this page by searching. An agent finds it by wishing: SkillFed indexes 14,416 PyPI packages by what they can do, searchable in plain language.
wish › “google translate api python”
- googletrans-pyProvides free Google Translate API access for Python, enabling text…
- googletransGoogletrans translates text and detects languages by calling Google…
- gTTSgTTS converts text to speech using Google Translate's API, writing…
Give your agent the search over MCP, or paste the wish link into any chat.
More Education packages
Wraps any iterable to display a real-time progress bar in the terminal or Jupyter notebook, showing iteration count, elapsed time, and estimated time remaining.
Sphinx generates professional documentation from reStructuredText source files, producing HTML, PDF, EPUB, and other formats with automatic cross-references, code highlighting, and hierarchical navigation.
progressbar2 renders text-based progress bars in the terminal, handling custom widgets, concurrent bars, unknown-length progress, and clean output around logs and prints.
Represents and manipulates IPv4, IPv6, MAC addresses and related network objects; supports CIDR notation, subnetting, set operations, IANA lookups, and DNS reverse generation.
cuda-python is a metapackage providing Pythonic access to NVIDIA's CUDA platform, bundling low-level bindings, runtime abstractions, and utilities for GPU-accelerated computing from Python.
However, verify that the proprietary NVIDIA license aligns with your project's requirements before committing to it in production or redistributed code.
Provides Pythonic APIs to access CUDA core functionalities including runtime control, compiler, and linker operations from Python.
See also googletrans · deep-translator · translate · google-cloud-translate · azure-ai-translation-text · translators · argostranslate · libretranslatepy · httpx