---
id: smartystreets-python-sdk
version: "7.2.0"
license: Apache 2
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# smartystreets-python-sdk — An official library to help Python developers easily access the SmartyStreets APIs

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 463.8K/mo

## What it is and what it does

This is the official Python SDK for SmartyStreets, a service that validates, verifies, and geocodes street addresses. It wraps the SmartyStreets REST APIs in a Python client library, handling authentication and request/response serialization so you don't have to build HTTP calls manually. The package depends only on requests, making it lightweight to install.

The SDK is designed for developers who need to integrate address validation or geocoding into Python applications. You provide your SmartyStreets credentials, instantiate a client, and call methods to validate or look up addresses. The library handles the API communication details, letting you focus on your application logic.

Use it for:

- Validate and standardize user-entered addresses in web forms or data imports before storing them.
- Geocode addresses to latitude/longitude coordinates for mapping or location-based services.
- Verify address deliverability during e-commerce checkout or shipping workflows.
- Deduplicate or clean address databases by normalizing entries through the SmartyStreets API.
- Build location intelligence features that require accurate, verified address data.

## Worth the install?

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

A client library for accessing SmartyStreets APIs from Python, providing address validation, verification, and geocoding services through a unified SDK interface.

Yes, if you need address validation or geocoding and already use or plan to subscribe to SmartyStreets. The SDK is actively maintained, has low install friction, carries a permissive license, and integrates cleanly with requests. If you don't have SmartyStreets credentials or need a different address service, this won't help.

## Install

pip install smartystreets-python-sdk
uv add smartystreets-python-sdk
poetry add smartystreets-python-sdk

## Installing smartystreets-python-sdk

Before you install: Low friction installation with a single runtime dependency (requests). Active maintenance with a recent release 37 days ago and ongoing repository activity.

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 smartystreets-python-sdk

import smartystreets_python_sdk
client = smartystreets_python_sdk.StaticCredentials('auth_id', 'auth_token')
# Use client to call SmartyStreets APIs

Requires valid SmartyStreets API credentials (auth_id and auth_token) to authenticate requests.

Verify before relying:

- Exact Python version support beyond 3.10 minimum mentioned in description
- Whether all SmartyStreets API endpoints are covered by this SDK version
- Rate limiting or quota handling behavior for API calls

## Package facts

- License: Apache 2 (permissive)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 463.8K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

address validation python, smartystreets api client, address verification sdk, geocoding library python, street address validation, address-validation, geocoding, api-client

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