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id: keeper-secrets-manager-core
version: "17.3.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# keeper-secrets-manager-core — Keeper Secrets Manager for Python 3

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 205.2K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Keeper Secrets Manager Core is a Python client library for programmatically accessing secrets stored in Keeper's vault. It handles authentication via one-time tokens or pre-configured credentials, supports custom server deployments with isolated public keys, and provides typed accessors for linked credentials, rotation settings, and encrypted data. The SDK manages encryption/decryption internally using cryptography and urllib3, and includes automatic retry logic with exponential backoff for throttled requests.

The library is production-stable and actively maintained, with recent releases addressing multiple security vulnerabilities in its dependencies (cryptography, urllib3, requests). It supports modern Python versions (3.9–3.13) and is designed for integration into applications that need to fetch secrets at runtime rather than storing them in code or environment variables.

Use it for:

- Retrieve database credentials at application startup without embedding them in configuration files.
- Access API keys and tokens for third-party services in a centralized, encrypted vault.
- Manage password rotation workflows by querying current credentials and rotation settings via the SDK.
- Deploy secrets to containerized or serverless applications using one-time tokens provisioned per environment.
- Integrate with isolated or government-cloud Keeper deployments using custom server public keys.

## Worth the install?

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

Python SDK for Keeper Secrets Manager that retrieves and manages secrets from a Keeper vault, with support for custom server configurations and encrypted credential access.

Yes. The package is production-stable, actively maintained with recent security patches, has low install friction, and is the official Python SDK for Keeper Secrets Manager. Install it if your application needs to retrieve secrets from a Keeper vault at runtime. No known vulnerabilities as of the latest scan.

## Install

pip install keeper-secrets-manager-core
uv add keeper-secrets-manager-core
poetry add keeper-secrets-manager-core

## Installing keeper-secrets-manager-core

Before you install: Low friction install with pure-Python wheels. Actively maintained as of 60 days ago with recent security updates to cryptography, urllib3, and requests dependencies to address multiple CVEs. Supports Python 3.9–3.13.

License in practice: MIT license permits use in commercial and open-source projects with minimal restrictions; attribution required but no copyleft obligations.

Quickstart:

pip install keeper-secrets-manager-core

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

sm = SecretsManager(
    token='REGION:ONE_TIME_TOKEN',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage(),
)

Requires Python 3.9 or higher; one-time token or pre-existing config file needed to initialize.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the SDK supports all Keeper Secrets Manager features or only a subset of the full API.
- Performance characteristics and rate-limit behavior under sustained high-volume secret retrieval.
- Whether custom server deployments require additional setup beyond the three key provisioning paths documented.

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 205.2K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

secrets manager python sdk, keeper vault api client, credential retrieval library, encrypted secrets storage, secrets management integration, keeper security sdk, vault client python, secrets-management, credential-retrieval, encryption

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