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id: azure-communication-identity
version: "1.5.0"
license: MIT License
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# azure-communication-identity — Microsoft Azure Communication Identity Service Client Library for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 311.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Azure Communication Identity is a Python client library for managing user identities and access tokens within Azure Communication Services. It provides a straightforward API to create and delete communication identities, issue scoped access tokens for services like chat and calling, and revoke tokens when needed. The library wraps Azure's REST API and handles authentication via connection strings or Azure Active Directory credentials.

The package is designed as a foundational component for applications that need to integrate Azure Communication Services. You use it to bootstrap identity management before calling other Azure communication client libraries (chat, calling, SMS). It supports token scoping to limit permissions, custom token expiration times, and Teams user token exchange for hybrid scenarios.

Use it for:

- Bootstrap identity setup for a multi-user chat or calling application backed by Azure Communication Services.
- Issue short-lived access tokens with specific scopes (CHAT, VOIP, CHAT_JOIN) for client applications.
- Revoke all tokens for a user when they log out or their account is disabled.
- Exchange Azure AD tokens from Teams users to Communication Identity tokens for interoperability.
- Create and manage communication identities programmatically in a backend service.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Creates and manages user identities and access tokens for Azure Communication Services, enabling authentication for chat, calling, and SMS operations.

Yes. This is a stable, actively maintained library with no known vulnerabilities, low install friction, and permissive licensing. Install it if you are building on Azure Communication Services and need to manage identities and tokens from Python. It is a required foundation for using other Azure communication client packages.

## Install

pip install azure-communication-identity
uv add azure-communication-identity
poetry add azure-communication-identity

## Installing azure-communication-identity

Before you install: Low install friction with three lightweight runtime dependencies (msrest, azure-core, typing-extensions). The package is actively maintained with a recent release and no known vulnerabilities.

License in practice: MIT License permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, requiring only attribution and inclusion of the license text.

Quickstart:

pip install azure-communication-identity

from azure.communication.identity import CommunicationIdentityClient
from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential

identity_client = CommunicationIdentityClient(endpoint, DefaultAzureCredential())
user = identity_client.create_user()

Requires an active Azure subscription and a deployed Communication Services resource with endpoint and credentials configured.

Verify before relying:

- Whether token expiration can be configured beyond the documented 1–24 hour range.
- Performance characteristics when managing large numbers of identities or tokens.
- Specific error handling and retry behavior for transient failures.

## Package facts

- License: MIT License (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 311.0K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

azure communication identity tokens, azure user identity management, azure communication services auth, create azure communication users, azure access token generation, azure communication scoped tokens, azure teams user token exchange, azure-sdk, identity-management, communication-services

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