---
id: rsconnect-python
version: "1.30.0"
license: # MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Posit Software, PBC Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),… (full text in the JSON record)
license_treatment: unclear
maintenance: active
---

# rsconnect-python — The Posit Connect command-line interface.

License: unclear · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 172.2K/mo

## What it is and what it does

rsconnect-python is the official command-line interface for Posit Connect, a content publishing platform. It provides a streamlined way to authenticate with a Connect server, store credentials locally, and deploy applications and content from your development environment to a remote server.

The tool depends on standard Python packages for CLI interaction (click), JWT authentication (pyjwt), semantic versioning (semver), and configuration management (toml). It's designed to be installed as a standalone tool via uv or pipx, or integrated into a project's dependencies. Deployment workflows typically involve one-time credential setup followed by simple deploy commands tied to your application files.

Use it for:

- Deploy a Shiny application to a Posit Connect server for team sharing and hosting.
- Automate content publishing in CI/CD pipelines using stored server credentials.
- Manage multiple Connect server targets and switch between them for different environments.
- Publish Python-based analytics or reporting applications without manual server uploads.

## Worth the install?

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

rsconnect-python is a command-line tool for deploying applications and content to Posit Connect servers, handling authentication, versioning, and deployment orchestration.

Yes, if you deploy to Posit Connect. The tool is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries no security vulnerabilities, and is the standard way to publish Python content to Connect servers. Not relevant if you don't use Posit Connect.

## Install

pip install rsconnect-python
uv add rsconnect-python
poetry add rsconnect-python

## Installing rsconnect-python

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with a recent release (29 days ago) and ongoing repository activity. Eight runtime dependencies are all common, lightweight packages.

License in practice: Licensed under MIT with no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution. The license treatment is marked unclear in the metadata, but the license text itself is standard MIT.

Quickstart:

pip install rsconnect-python
rsconnect add --server https://connect.example.com --api-key YOUR_KEY --name production
rsconnect deploy shiny app.py --title "my app"

Requires an active Posit Connect server and valid API credentials with publisher privileges to deploy.

Verify before relying:

- Whether the package supports deployment of content types beyond Shiny applications (e.g., Quarto, Jupyter notebooks, static content).
- Whether the tool requires a specific version of Posit Connect or supports multiple server versions.

## Package facts

- License: # MIT License Copyright (c) 2025 Posit Software, PBC Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),… (full text in the JSON record) (unclear)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 172.2K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

posit connect deployment cli, shiny app deployment tool, python content publishing, connect server command line, deploy python applications, deployment, posit-connect, cli

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