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Get A Full List of Google Fonts

November 2025

This code gets produces two lists from the Google Fonts API.

  1. The raw result from the request
  2. A filtered down version with just the names of the families and their associated files.

You'll need to get an API key to get the data. It's been a while since I went through that process. You'll need to dig into that on your own.

#!/usr/bin/env python3 

import json
import keyring
import requests
import urllib.parse

output_root = "/Users/alan/Desktop"
full_list_path = f"{output_root}/google-fonts-full-list.json"
family_list_path = f"{output_root}/google-font-families.json"

api_key = keyring.get_password('alan--google-fonts-api--main', 'alan')
url = f"https://www.googleapis.com/webfonts/v1/webfonts?key={api_key}"

response = requests.get(url)
data = json.loads(response.content)

with open(full_list_path, "w") as _out:
  json.dump(data, _out, sort_keys=True, indent=4)


font_families = {}

for font in data["items"]:
  font_families[font["family"]] = {
    "files": font["files"]
  }


with open(family_list_path, "w") as _out:
  json.dump(font_families, _out, sort_keys=True, indent=4)


print("done")
Output:
done
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