google-auth
Google authentication library for Python with OAuth2 and service account support.
SDKs for hosted services PyPI Apache 2.0
Used in agent projects
72
0.6% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in sdks for hosted services
#12 of 44
by use in those projects
Downloads
93.3M
PyPI, last 7 days, google-auth
GitHub stars
5,405
last push Oct 10, 2026
How google-auth is used
google-auth is a dependency in 72 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.6%), #12 of 44 in sdks for hosted services. The most used alternative there is Supabase JS. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (79.2%), python-dotenv (72.2%), Google API Python Client (56.9%).
Often used with google-auth
| Requests | 79.2% of google-auth projects · 14.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| python-dotenv | 72.2% of google-auth projects · 11.1× more than average |
| Google API Python Client | 56.9% of google-auth projects · 141.8× more than average |
| Pydantic | 51.4% of google-auth projects · 10.1× more than average |
| PyYAML | 48.6% of google-auth projects · 16.0× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 47.2% of google-auth projects · 11.0× more than average |
| NumPy | 45.8% of google-auth projects · 11.9× more than average |
| urllib3 | 45.8% of google-auth projects · 30.2× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list google-auth as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install google-auth |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (64), Next.js (5), Other (1), React Native / Expo (1) |
| Example projects | Josh-XT/AGiXT, Kaggle/kaggle-environments, impecablemee/gtm-mcp, kr8tiv-ai/Jarvis, particlefuture/1mcpserver |
Alternatives to google-auth
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supabase JS npm Isomorphic JavaScript SDK for Supabase backend-as-a-service. |
927 (7.3%) | 30.5M | 4,574 | MIT |
| Supabase SSR npm Supabase client library optimized for server-side rendering frameworks. |
332 (2.6%) | 8.1M | 210 | MIT |
| Resend npm Node.js SDK for Resend email API to send transactional emails. |
235 (1.9%) | 12.9M | 964 | MIT |
| Firebase npm Google's platform SDK for realtime database, auth, hosting and serverless functions. |
224 (1.8%) | 10.6M | 5,149 | Apache-2.0 |
| AWS SDK for JavaScript (S3) npm Official AWS SDK for uploading, downloading and managing S3 objects. |
200 (1.6%) | 49.4M | 3,673 | Apache-2.0 |
| Stripe npm Official SDK for integrating Stripe payments and billing into applications. |
197 (1.6%) | 23.5M | 4,523 | MIT |
| EmailJS npm Official browser SDK for sending emails directly from client-side JavaScript without a backend. |
189 (1.5%) | 122K | 143 | BSD-3-Clause |
| Supabase CLI npm Command-line tool for managing Supabase projects and databases locally. |
131 (1.0%) | 5.6M | 2,430 | MIT |