Client version 1.5X.0 fails with attribute error on live client

[Ben-Epstein]

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Environment details

• Programming language: python
• OS: Linux
• Language runtime version: 1.52.0
• Package version: 1.52.0

Steps to reproduce

from google import genai
import os

MODEL = "gemini-live-2.5-flash-preview-native-audio-09-2025"

client = genai.Client(vertexai=True, project=os.environ["PROJECT_ID"], location=os.environ["GEMINI_REGION"])
async with client.aio.live.connect(
        model=MODEL,
    ) as gs:
    pass

Output

  File "./main.py", line 275, in start_gemini_session
    async with client.aio.live.connect(
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File ".local/share/uv/python/cpython-3.12.6-macos-aarch64-none/lib/python3.12/contextlib.py", line 210, in __aenter__
    return await anext(self.gen)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
  File "venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/google/genai/live.py", line 1030, in connect
    auth_req = google.auth.transport.requests.Request()  # type: ignore
               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
AttributeError: module 'google.auth.transport' has no attribute 'requests'. Did you mean: 'Request'?

This only happens with 1.5X.0, on 1.49.0 everything works as expected

[sararob]

We are looking into this. Does running pip install google-auth[requests] resolve the issue for you?

[bonanaaaaaa]

I’m encountering this same AttributeError as well. I attempted to install google-auth[requests] to resolve the missing dependency, but the error persists.

[janasangeetha]

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