---
id: pypd
version: "1.1.0"
license: MIT
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: abandoned
---

# pypd — A python client for PagerDuty API

License: permissive · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 545.8K/mo

## What it is and what it does

pypd is a Python wrapper around PagerDuty's v2 API that lets you query and manipulate incidents, escalation policies, users, and events programmatically. You set an API key and then use object-oriented methods like Incident.find(), User.find_one(), and incident.snooze() to interact with your PagerDuty account. The library handles HTTP communication via requests and provides convenient access to nested resources—for example, fetching log entries or alerts attached to an incident.

However, this project has been deprecated. The repository is archived, with the last commit on 2020-06-23 and no releases since 2018-03-26. Installing pypd means accepting an unmaintained codebase that will not receive security patches, bug fixes, or API updates.

Use it for:

- Automate incident response workflows by querying and updating incidents programmatically
- Create events and alerts in PagerDuty from monitoring or logging systems
- Build internal dashboards or reports that pull incident and escalation policy data
- Integrate PagerDuty on-call rotations with other tools via the API

## Worth the install?

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

A Python client for PagerDuty's v2 API that provides object-oriented access to incidents, escalation policies, users, and events.

No. The package is explicitly deprecated and abandoned. Although it has low install friction and a permissive MIT license, the last release was in 2018 and the repository has been archived since 2020. Installing an unmaintained package for a critical service like incident management introduces security and compatibility risks with no path forward for updates.

## Install

pip install pypd
uv add pypd
poetry add pypd

## Installing pypd

Before you install: Low install friction with only two runtime dependencies (requests and six), but the package is abandoned as of 2020 with no maintenance since June 2020.

License in practice: MIT license permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions, requiring only license and copyright notice retention.

Quickstart:

pip install pypd

import pypd
pypd.api_key = "SOMESECRETAPIKEY"
incidents = pypd.Incident.find(maximum=10)
ep = pypd.EscalationPolicy.find_one()
print(ep['id'])

Requires a valid PagerDuty API key; package is unmaintained and may not work with current PagerDuty API versions

Verify before relying:

- Current compatibility with modern PagerDuty API versions and Python 3.x
- Security implications of using an unmaintained package in production
- Whether the recommended successor is a direct replacement

## Package facts

- License: MIT (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 545.8K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

pagerduty api client python, pagerduty incident management, pagerduty python sdk, on-call alerting integration, pagerduty rest api wrapper, deprecated, pagerduty-integration

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