---
id: egnyte
version: "0.5.3"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# egnyte — Egnyte Public API SDK

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 78.6K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Egnyte is the official Python SDK for Egnyte's cloud storage Public APIs. It wraps HTTP endpoints to provide object-oriented access to files, folders, search, and event streams on an Egnyte domain. You authenticate with an API key and access token, then use a client object to create, delete, list, upload, and download files and folders, perform bulk operations, search for content, and stream server events.

The library is designed for straightforward cloud storage integration—typical workflows include folder creation, file upload/download, bulk recursive operations, and event monitoring. It requires no runtime dependencies beyond the standard library, making installation frictionless. However, the package has been abandoned since 2017 with no active maintenance, security updates, or compatibility verification for modern Python versions or current Egnyte API changes.

Use it for:

- Automate file uploads and downloads to Egnyte cloud storage from Python applications.
- Build folder hierarchies and manage file organization programmatically on Egnyte domains.
- Search Egnyte for files by content and metadata, filtering by folder and modification date.
- Monitor Egnyte events (file changes, user actions) in real time via server polling.
- Perform bulk recursive uploads or downloads of entire directory trees to/from Egnyte.
- Integrate Egnyte storage into legacy Python 2.7 applications (original support).

## Worth the install?

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

Official Python client library for Egnyte's Public APIs, providing file and folder management, search, and event handling through Egnyte cloud storage.

No. The package is abandoned (last release 2017) with no maintenance or security updates. Egnyte's Public API may have evolved since then, risking incompatibility. Unless you are maintaining a legacy Python 2.7 system already bound to this SDK, use Egnyte's current official client or REST API directly. If you must use it, verify compatibility with your Egnyte domain and Python version first.

## Install

pip install egnyte
uv add egnyte
poetry add egnyte

## Installing egnyte

Before you install: Low install friction with no runtime dependencies. However, the package is abandoned—last release was 2017-05-23, over 3370 days ago. No active maintenance or security updates.

License in practice: MIT license (permissive) allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, though abandoned status means no legal support or updates.

Quickstart:

pip install egnyte

import egnyte

client = egnyte.EgnyteClient({"domain": "example.egnyte.com", "access_token": "token"})
folder = client.folder("/Shared/new").create(ignore_if_exists=True)

Requires valid Egnyte domain and OAuth access token; obtain API key from https://developers.egnyte.com/member/register first.

Verify before relying:

- Whether Egnyte's current Public API remains compatible with this 0.5.3 SDK released in 2017.
- Status of Egnyte's authentication flow and whether implicit/resource grant types still work as documented.
- Python 3.5+ compatibility; classifiers list only 3.3 and 3.4 support.

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 78.6K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

egnyte api client, cloud storage sdk python, file management api, egnyte folder operations, cloud file upload download, egnyte authentication, enterprise file sync, cloud-storage, abandoned

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