---
id: bandwidth-sdk
version: "23.1.5"
license: unclear
license_treatment: unclear
maintenance: active
---

# bandwidth-sdk — Bandwidth

License: unclear · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 137.3K/mo

## What it is and what it does

bandwidth_sdk is an auto-generated OpenAPI client for Bandwidth's Communication APIs, enabling Python developers to programmatically manage voice calls, conferences, SMS/MMS messaging, phone number lookups, and media storage. It wraps Bandwidth's REST endpoints in Python classes and methods, handling serialization, authentication, and error handling through pydantic, urllib3, and standard library tools.

The package is maintained as an active project with recent releases and requires Python 3.7 or later. It has low install friction—a pure-wheel distribution with four stable runtime dependencies. Use it when you need to integrate Bandwidth's communication services into a Python application, whether for outbound calling, conference management, two-factor authentication, or bulk messaging.

Use it for:

- Build outbound calling systems that create, query, and update voice calls via the Calls API.
- Manage multi-party conferences, including member control and recording retrieval.
- Send and receive SMS/MMS messages and manage media uploads for messaging campaigns.
- Implement phone number lookup and verification for lead validation or fraud detection.
- Generate and verify one-time authentication codes for two-factor authentication flows.
- Store and retrieve media assets (recordings, audio files) associated with communication events.

## Worth the install?

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

Python client library for Bandwidth's Communication APIs, providing programmatic access to voice calls, conferences, messaging, phone number lookup, and media management.

Yes, if you are building on Bandwidth's platform and need a Python client. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and offers comprehensive API coverage. However, verify the license terms first—the unclear license status is a blocker for some use cases. No known security vulnerabilities as of the query date.

## Install

pip install bandwidth-sdk
uv add bandwidth-sdk
poetry add bandwidth-sdk

## Installing bandwidth-sdk

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained with a release 10 days old. Requires Python 3.7+. Runtime dependencies are all widely-used, stable libraries (pydantic, urllib3, python-dateutil, typing-extensions).

License in practice: License status is unclear—no SPDX identifier or raw license text is available in the package metadata. Verify the actual license terms before use in proprietary or copyleft-sensitive projects.

Quickstart:

pip install bandwidth-sdk

import bandwidth
from bandwidth.rest import ApiException

configuration = bandwidth.Configuration(
    username="your_username",
    password="your_password"
)
with bandwidth.ApiClient(configuration) as api_client:
    api_instance = bandwidth.CallsApi(api_client)
    response = api_instance.create_call('9900000', bandwidth.CreateCall())

Requires Python 3.7+. Bandwidth account credentials (username/password or OAuth client_id/client_secret) must be configured before making API calls.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the unclear license is permissive, proprietary, or restrictive—critical for commercial use.
- Current state of the GitHub repository (archived status, recent commits, community activity).
- Whether all advertised API endpoints (Calls, Conferences, Endpoints, MFA, Media, Messages, MultiChannel, PhoneNumberLookup) are fully functional in version 23.1.5.

## Package facts

- License: not declared (unclear)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 137.3K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

bandwidth api client, voice call api python, sms messaging api, phone number lookup, conference management api, bandwidth communications sdk, api-client, communications, openapi-generated

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