This page contains information about installing the Google APIs Client Library for Python.
System requirements
-
Operating systems:
- Linux
- Mac OS X
- Windows
- Python 2.7, or 3.4 or higher
Installing the client library
You can either use a package manager or download and install the Python client library manually:
Managed installation
Use pip or setuptools to manage your installation (you might
need to run sudo
first):
- pip (preferred):
$ pip install --upgrade google-api-python-client
-
Setuptools:
Use the
easy_install
tool included in the setuptools package:$ easy_install --upgrade google-api-python-client
Manual installation
Download the latest client
library for Python, unpack the code, and run
python setup.py install
App Engine
Because the Python client libraries are not installed in the App Engine Python runtime environment, they must be vendored into your application just like third-party libraries.
Download samples
After you have installed the library, you can optionally download and unpack samples. The package names that start with google-api-python-client-samples- contain samples using this library in many scenarios. See the Sample Applications page for more information about these and other samples.