benchling-api-client

What it is and what it does

benchling-api-client is a low-level Python HTTP client autogenerated from Benchling's OpenAPI specification. It provides direct, type-hinted access to Benchling's REST API endpoints, with built-in retry logic via backoff and request handling through httpx. The package is actively maintained and supports Python 3.9 through 3.13.

However, the package's own documentation explicitly recommends using the higher-level benchling-sdk instead, which wraps this client with additional scaffolding to simplify common workflows. Use this package directly only if you need low-level API control, are integrating with a specific endpoint not well-covered by the SDK, or prefer working with the raw OpenAPI-generated interface.

Use it for:

• Direct access to Benchling API endpoints when the higher-level SDK does not expose the operation you need.
• Building custom integrations that require fine-grained control over request/response handling and retry logic.
• Prototyping or testing new Benchling API features before they are wrapped by the SDK.
• Automating laboratory workflows by querying or updating resources (experiments, samples, sequences) via Benchling's API.
• Integrating Benchling data into Python data pipelines or analysis scripts.

Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying

A low-level HTTP client for Benchling's API, autogenerated from OpenAPI definitions and offering direct access to Benchling endpoints.

Yes, but with a caveat: install this only if you are building a direct API integration and the benchling-sdk does not meet your needs. The package is actively maintained, has low install friction, and carries no known vulnerabilities. However, Benchling's own recommendation to use the higher-level SDK suggests this is a lower-level tool; start with the SDK unless you have a specific reason to work at the raw API level.

Install

benchling-api-client on PyPI

pip install benchling-api-client

uv add benchling-api-client

poetry add benchling-api-client

Installing benchling-api-client

Before you install

Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Actively maintained with a release 15 days old. Six runtime dependencies are all well-established packages (attrs, backoff, httpx, dataclasses-json, python-dateutil, typing-extensions), suggesting a stable, lightweight dependency chain.

License in practice

Apache-2.0 is permissive; you can use this package in commercial and proprietary projects without restriction, though you must include a copy of the license and note any modifications you make.

Quickstart

pip install benchling-api-client

from benchling_api_client import AuthenticatedClient
from benchling_api_client.api.some_endpoint import get_resource

client = AuthenticatedClient(base_url="https://api.benchling.com", token="your_token")
result = get_resource.sync(client=client)

Requires Python 3.9 or later. You must have a valid Benchling API token and know the endpoint module path for the resource you want to access.

Verify before relying

• Whether this package is actively maintained by Benchling or community-driven; the description recommends the benchling-sdk instead.
• Specific endpoint coverage and whether all Benchling API operations are available in this version.
• Performance characteristics and rate-limiting behavior when used at scale.

Package facts

Evidence: benchling_api_client-2.0.440-py3-none-any.whl

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