---
id: scaleway-core
version: "2.11.0"
license: BSD
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# scaleway-core — Scaleway SDK for Python

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 200.8K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Scaleway-core is the foundational Python SDK for Scaleway's cloud platform, providing low-level API client functionality and utilities needed to interact with Scaleway services. It handles the mechanics of authentication, HTTP request construction, and response parsing, sitting beneath higher-level service-specific packages.

The package depends on three widely-used libraries: requests for HTTP communication, PyYAML for configuration parsing, and python-dateutil for timestamp handling. It targets modern Python versions (3.10 through 3.14) and is currently in Alpha status, meaning the API may still evolve. It's actively maintained with recent releases.

Use it for:

- Building automation scripts that provision or manage Scaleway cloud resources programmatically
- Integrating Scaleway infrastructure into larger Python applications or deployment pipelines
- Writing tools that query or monitor Scaleway account resources and services
- Developing custom cloud management dashboards or reporting tools backed by Scaleway

## Worth the install?

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

Provides Python bindings and utilities for interacting with Scaleway cloud services via their API, handling authentication, request formatting, and response parsing.

Yes, if you are building Python applications that need to interact with Scaleway cloud services. The low install friction, active maintenance, permissive license, and absence of known vulnerabilities make it a straightforward choice. The Alpha status is worth noting—expect the API to potentially change in future releases, but this is typical for SDKs early in their lifecycle.

## Install

pip install scaleway-core
uv add scaleway-core
poetry add scaleway-core

## Installing scaleway-core

Before you install: Low install friction with three common dependencies (PyYAML, python-dateutil, requests). Marked as Alpha in development status but actively maintained with a recent release.

License in practice: BSD license is permissive and allows commercial use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart:

pip install scaleway-core

import scaleway_core
# Requires Scaleway API credentials (typically via environment or config)

Requires Python 3.10 or later; Scaleway API credentials must be configured separately.

Verify before relying:

- Specific Scaleway services and API endpoints supported by this version
- Whether this is a standalone core library or requires additional service-specific packages
- Documentation availability and completeness for the current version

## Package facts

- License: BSD (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 200.8K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

scaleway api client, scaleway python sdk, cloud provider sdk python, scaleway authentication, scaleway api wrapper, cloud-sdk, scaleway

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