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id: okta
version: "3.4.4"
license: Apache-2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
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# okta — Python SDK for the Okta Management API

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 1.2M/mo

## What it is and what it does

The Okta SDK is a Python client library that wraps the Okta Management APIs, allowing developers to programmatically manage identity and access resources within an Okta organization. It handles authentication, request construction, and response parsing, exposing Okta's administrative capabilities—such as user provisioning, group management, and policy configuration—through Python objects and methods.

The package depends on standard HTTP and cryptographic libraries (requests, aiohttp, jwcrypto, PyJWT, pycryptodomex) to communicate securely with Okta's cloud services. It targets modern Python versions (3.9 through 3.13) and is maintained actively by Okta, with a stable production status since its initial release in 2015.

Use it for:

- Automate user provisioning and deprovisioning workflows in Okta from your application.
- Build administrative dashboards that query Okta user, group, and application data programmatically.
- Integrate Okta identity management into CI/CD pipelines for automated account lifecycle management.
- Sync user data between Okta and external systems via scheduled batch operations.
- Manage Okta policies, rules, and authentication factors through infrastructure-as-code tools.

## Worth the install?

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

A Python SDK for the Okta Management APIs, enabling programmatic access to Okta identity and access management services through a client library.

Yes. The package is production-stable, actively maintained, has low install friction, carries a permissive license, and no known vulnerabilities. Install it if you need to integrate Okta's Management APIs into a Python application and have a valid Okta organization and API token.

## Install

pip install okta
uv add okta
poetry add okta

## Installing okta

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution. Actively maintained with a recent release (44 days ago) and continuous repository activity. Requires Python 3.10 or later.

License in practice: Apache-2.0 permissive license allows commercial and private use with minimal restrictions; you may use, modify, and distribute the package freely provided you include the license notice.

Quickstart:

pip install okta

from okta.client import Client as OktaClient

client = OktaClient({
    'client_orgUrl': 'https://your-org.okta.com',
    'client_token': 'your_api_token'
})

Requires an Okta organization account and a valid API token from your Okta developer account.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the SDK supports all current Okta Management API endpoints or if some require direct HTTP calls.
- Performance characteristics and rate-limiting behavior when handling large batches of users or resources.
- Backward compatibility guarantees across major version changes.

## Package facts

- License: Apache-2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 1.2M/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

okta management api python, identity access management sdk, okta admin api client, okta authentication python, okta user management, okta api integration, okta provisioning sdk, identity-management, okta-integration, api-client

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