Google Home Local API

Documentation for Google Home’s local API, specs in OpenAPI 3.0. Rendered with Redoc.

This is unofficial documentation, assembled by hand, reverse engineering the Google Home android app.

Featured on:

• XDA: The Google Home has an undocumented local API that you can now access
• Android Police: The Google Home has a hidden API that local devices can use

Used by:

• Python library by @ludeeus
• Go auth script by @felixschndr
• OpenHAB Add-on by @kubawolanin

Referenced in:

• Web-based Attacks to Discover and Control Local IoT Devices
• The impact of using AI and VR with blended learning on English as a foreign language teaching
• Smart Home Forensics - Data Analysis of IoT Devices
• Comparative Security Behavioural Analysis Between Alexa Echo Dot and Google Home Mini using Penetration Testing Tools
• Common Sense Security Measures for Voice-Activated Assistant Devices
• A Tutorial on Prototyping Internet of Things Devices and Systems: A Gentle Introduction to Technology that Shapes Our Lives
• Preliminary Study of a Google Home Mini