sentinelhub
Python API for Sentinel Hub
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Yes. sentinelhub is actively maintained, production-stable, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and is the official client for a widely-used satellite data platform. Install it if you need programmatic access to Sentinel Hub's imagery APIs; skip it if you don't use Sentinel Hub or prefer direct REST calls.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Requires Python >= 3.8 and valid Sentinel Hub API credentials.
- On Windows, pre-installing shapely from an unofficial wheels repository is recommended before installing sentinelhub.
- Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution.
License · maintenance · safety
permissive license (permissive) — MIT License permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions. You may use, modify, and distribute sentinelhub freely provided you include the original license and copyright notice.
last release 2026-03-10 (157 days) · last repo commit 2026-03-10 · 908 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 92,416 downloads/mo, #13,452 on PyPI
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pip install sentinelhub
from sentinelhub import SentinelHubRequest, DataCollection, MimeType
# Configure with your Sentinel Hub credentials, then request imagery
request = SentinelHubRequest(...)- Whether the package's optional [AWS] extra dependencies are commonly needed for typical workflows
- Performance characteristics when processing large satellite imagery datasets
- Specific rate-limit handling behavior and quotas under different Sentinel Hub service tiers
What it is and what it does
sentinelhub is the official Python client for Sentinel Hub's satellite data platform. It abstracts the complexity of multiple Sentinel Hub APIs—Process, Catalog, Batch, Statistical, and OGC services—into a unified Python interface, allowing developers to query, retrieve, and process satellite imagery from Sentinel, Landsat, MODIS, and custom data collections. The package also bundles geospatial utilities for coordinate transformations, large-area splitting, and data I/O, building on established libraries like numpy, shapely, and pyproj.
The package is designed for researchers, data engineers, and developers working with satellite imagery in Python workflows. It handles authentication, rate limiting, and API communication transparently, and serves as a core dependency for eo-learn, a framework for building geospatial data-processing pipelines. Most users configure it once with their Sentinel Hub credentials, then use its request and query classes to fetch imagery and metadata.
Use it for
- Download and process Sentinel-2 or Landsat imagery for a geographic region using the Process API
- Query available satellite data collections and their metadata via the Catalog API
- Submit large-scale satellite processing jobs asynchronously through the Batch Processing API
- Compute statistical summaries (e.g., NDVI, cloud cover) over areas using the Statistical API
- Integrate satellite data retrieval into geospatial data pipelines built with eo-learn
Worth the install?
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Yes.
sentinelhub is actively maintained, production-stable, has low install friction, carries no known vulnerabilities, and is the official client for a widely-used satellite data platform. Install it if you need programmatic access to Sentinel Hub's imagery APIs; skip it if you don't use Sentinel Hub or prefer direct REST calls.
Install
sentinelhub on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a pure-wheel distribution. Active maintenance with a recent release 157 days ago and ongoing repository activity. Depends on 17 well-established packages including numpy, shapely, and requests; no compiled dependencies beyond what shapely may require on Windows.
Requires Python >= 3.8 and valid Sentinel Hub API credentials. On Windows, pre-installing shapely from an unofficial wheels repository is recommended before installing sentinelhub.
License in practice
MIT License permits commercial and private use with minimal restrictions. You may use, modify, and distribute sentinelhub freely provided you include the original license and copyright notice.
Quickstart
pip install sentinelhub
from sentinelhub import SentinelHubRequest, DataCollection, MimeType
# Configure with your Sentinel Hub credentials, then request imagery
request = SentinelHubRequest(...)Verify before relying
- Whether the package's optional [AWS] extra dependencies are commonly needed for typical workflows
- Performance characteristics when processing large satellite imagery datasets
- Specific rate-limit handling behavior and quotas under different Sentinel Hub service tiers
Package facts
| License | permissive license permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.8 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 17 packagesaenumclickdataclasses-jsonnumpyoauthlibpillowpyprojpython-dateutilrequests-oauthlibrequestsshapelytifffiletomlitomli-wtqdmtyping-extensionsutm |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 157 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 92,416 / month, #13,452 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableIntended Audience :: DevelopersIntended Audience :: EducationIntended Audience :: Science/ResearchLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseOperating System :: MacOSOperating System :: Microsoft :: WindowsOperating System :: UnixProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Topic :: Scientific/EngineeringTopic :: Software Development |
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