Use Python? Want to geocode something? Looking for directions? Maybe matrices of directions? This library brings the Google Maps Platform Web Services to your Python application.
The Python Client for Google Maps Services is a Python Client library for the following Google Maps APIs:
Keep in mind that the same terms and conditions apply to usage of the APIs when they're accessed through this library.
This library is community supported. We're comfortable enough with the stability and features of the library that we want you to build real production applications on it. We will try to support, through Stack Overflow, the public and protected surface of the library and maintain backwards compatibility in the future; however, while the library is in version 0.x, we reserve the right to make backwards-incompatible changes. If we do remove some functionality (typically because better functionality exists or if the feature proved infeasible), our intention is to deprecate and give developers a year to update their code.
If you find a bug, or have a feature suggestion, please log an issue. If you'd like to contribute, please read contribute.
Each Google Maps Web Service request requires an API key or client ID. API keys are generated in the 'Credentials' page of the 'APIs & Services' tab of Google Cloud console.
For even more information on getting started with Google Maps Platform and generating/restricting an API key, see Get Started with Google Maps Platform in our docs.
Important: This key should be kept secret on your server.
$ pip install -U googlemaps
Note that you will need requests 2.4.0 or higher if you want to specify connect/read timeouts.
This example uses the Geocoding API and the Directions API with an API key:
import googlemaps
from datetime import datetime
gmaps = googlemaps.Client(key='Add Your Key here')
# Geocoding an address
geocode_result = gmaps.geocode('1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA')
# Look up an address with reverse geocoding
reverse_geocode_result = gmaps.reverse_geocode((40.714224, -73.961452))
# Request directions via public transit
now = datetime.now()
directions_result = gmaps.directions("Sydney Town Hall",
"Parramatta, NSW",
mode="transit",
departure_time=now)
# Validate an address with address validation
addressvalidation_result = gmaps.addressvalidation(['1600 Amphitheatre Pk'],
regionCode='US',
locality='Mountain View',
enableUspsCass=True)
For more usage examples, check out the tests.
Automatically retry when intermittent failures occur. That is, when any of the retriable 5xx errors are returned from the API.
# Installing nox
$ pip install nox
# Running tests
$ nox
# Generating documentation
$ nox -e docs
# Copy docs to gh-pages
$ nox -e docs && mv docs/_build/html generated_docs && git clean -Xdi && git checkout gh-pages
Documentation for the google-maps-services-python library
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
experience_id to Client class (#338)alt_id, id, reference, and scope. Read more about this at https://developers.google.com/maps/deprecations.APIError.__str__ should always return a str (#328)alt_id, id, reference, and scope. Read more about this at https://developers.google.com/maps/deprecations.geometry/location and geometry/viewport in Places.place().request_kwargs were being overridden.places_autocomplete_session_token which can be replaced with uuid.uuid4().hex.places_radar.Note: Start of changelog is 2019-08-27, v3.0.2.
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Python client library for Google Maps Platform
We found that googlemaps demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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