Attio Python SDK



Type-safe Python client for the Attio API, with support for sync and async usage.

Summary

Table of Contents

SDK Installation

The SDK can be installed with uv, pip, or poetry package managers.

uv

uv is a fast Python package installer and resolver, designed as a drop-in replacement for pip and pip-tools. It's recommended for its speed and modern Python tooling capabilities.

uv add git+<UNSET>.git

PIP

PIP is the default package installer for Python, enabling easy installation and management of packages from PyPI via the command line.

pip install git+<UNSET>.git

Poetry

Poetry is a modern tool that simplifies dependency management and package publishing by using a single pyproject.toml file to handle project metadata and dependencies.

poetry add git+<UNSET>.git

Shell and script usage with uv

You can use this SDK in a Python shell with uv and the uvx command that comes with it like so:

uvx --from attio python

It's also possible to write a standalone Python script without needing to set up a whole project like so:

#!/usr/bin/env -S uv run --script
# /// script
# requires-python = ">=3.10"
# dependencies = [
#     "attio",
# ]
# ///

from attio import SDK

sdk = SDK(
  # SDK arguments
)

# Rest of script here...

Once that is saved to a file, you can run it with uv run script.py where script.py can be replaced with the actual file name.

Standalone CLI

Install and run the agent-friendly CLI without cloning this repository:

export ATTIO_API_KEY="your-attio-api-key"
uvx gtm-attio people upsert person@example.com \
  --first-name Ada --last-name Lovelace

The CLI also reads ATTIO_API_KEY from .env.local or .env in the current directory. Environment variables take precedence. Search/list commands are read-only. Add, update, and upsert commands write directly to Attio without a confirmation prompt; every command prints a JSON reliability envelope.

Both the attio and gtm-attio distribution artifacts expose the gtm-attio command for compatibility. They are alternate names for packages that provide the same attio import namespace; install only one distribution in a Python environment.

People commands use email as their identity key. search is read-only; add fails if the email already exists; update requires exactly one matching person. upsert creates or updates as before. Common write options include repeatable --add-email, --replace-emails, --job-title, --phone, --phone-country-code, --linkedin, --company (company domain), --notes, and --strict. Prefix international phone numbers with +; local numbers require --phone-country-code (ISO-3166-1 alpha-2). Pair --location with --country-code; --location-mode city|raw controls its mapping.

uvx gtm-attio people upsert --json '{"email":"person@example.com","first_name":"Ada","job_title":"Mathematician"}'

uvx gtm-attio people search person@example.com
uvx gtm-attio people add person@example.com --first-name Ada --last-name Lovelace
uvx gtm-attio people update person@example.com --job-title Mathematician

Company commands use validated JSON. The domain is the exact identity and is written to Attio's domains attribute; values contains other Attio record attribute values in the API's {attribute_slug: [value, ...]} format. Add rejects an existing domain and update requires exactly one match:

uvx gtm-attio companies search --json '{"domain":"example.com"}'
uvx gtm-attio companies add --json '{"domain":"example.com","values":{"name":[{"value":"Example Inc"}]}}'
uvx gtm-attio companies update --json '{"domain":"example.com","values":{"description":["Prospect"]}}'

Notes attach to one existing record. List is read-only; add and update write immediately. Updates target a note ID and only replace the supplied fields:

uvx gtm-attio notes list --json '{"parent_object":"people","parent_record_id":"RECORD_ID"}'
uvx gtm-attio notes add --json '{"parent_object":"people","parent_record_id":"RECORD_ID","title":"Discovery call","content":"Discussed the launch plan.","format":"plaintext"}'
uvx gtm-attio notes update --json '{"note_id":"NOTE_ID","content":"Updated call notes."}'

The output envelope reports success, partial_success, action, record_id, warnings, skipped_fields, errors, and meta. Missing optional workspace attributes are retried without that field and reported as warnings for people writes. Search/list results are in meta.results. Invalid optional person values are skipped and reported; --strict turns those mismatches and invalid values into errors. Ambiguous person/company writes always fail without modifying a record. Successful and partial-success operations exit 0, runtime failures exit 1, and command-line usage errors exit 2.

IDE Support

PyCharm

Generally, the SDK will work well with most IDEs out of the box. However, when using PyCharm, you can enjoy much better integration with Pydantic by installing an additional plugin.

SDK Example Usage

Example

# Synchronous Example
from attio import SDK


with SDK(
    oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
) as sdk:

    res = sdk.objects.get_v2_objects()

    # Handle response
    print(res)

The same SDK client can also be used to make asynchronous requests by importing asyncio.

# Asynchronous Example
import asyncio
from attio import SDK

async def main():

    async with SDK(
        oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
    ) as sdk:

        res = await sdk.objects.get_v2_objects_async()

        # Handle response
        print(res)

asyncio.run(main())

Authentication

Per-Client Security Schemes

This SDK supports the following security scheme globally:

Name Type Scheme
oauth2 oauth2 OAuth2 token

To authenticate with the API the oauth2 parameter must be set when initializing the SDK client instance. For example:

from attio import SDK


with SDK(
    oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
) as sdk:

    res = sdk.objects.get_v2_objects()

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Common Workflows

List objects

from attio import SDK

with SDK(oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>") as sdk:
    res = sdk.objects.get_v2_objects()
    print(res)

Create a record (people)

from attio import SDK

with SDK(oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>") as sdk:
    res = sdk.records.post_v2_objects_object_records(
        object="people",
        data={
            "values": {
                "<ATTRIBUTE_SLUG_OR_ID>": ["Ada Lovelace"],
            },
        },
    )
    print(res)

Query records (people)

from attio import SDK

with SDK(oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>") as sdk:
    res = sdk.records.post_v2_objects_object_records_query(
        object="people",
        limit=25,
        offset=0,
    )
    print(res)

Available Resources and Operations

Available methods

Activities

ActivityRecords

Attributes

CallRecordings

Comments

Emails

Entries

Files

Lists

Meetings

Meta

Notes

Objects

Records

Sequences

Sql

Tasks

Threads

Transcripts

Webhooks

WorkspaceMembers

File uploads

Certain SDK methods accept file objects as part of a request body or multi-part request. It is possible and typically recommended to upload files as a stream rather than reading the entire contents into memory. This avoids excessive memory consumption and potentially crashing with out-of-memory errors when working with very large files. The following example demonstrates how to attach a file stream to a request.

from attio import SDK


with SDK(
    oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
) as sdk:

    res = sdk.files.post_v2_files_upload(file={
        "file_name": "example.file",
        "content": open("example.file", "rb"),
    }, object="people", record_id="bf071e1f-6035-429d-b874-d83ea64ea13b", parent_folder_id="a1b2c3d4-e5f6-7890-abcd-ef1234567890")

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Retries

Some of the endpoints in this SDK support retries. If you use the SDK without any configuration, it will fall back to the default retry strategy provided by the API. However, the default retry strategy can be overridden on a per-operation basis, or across the entire SDK.

To change the default retry strategy for a single API call, simply provide a RetryConfig object to the call:

from attio import SDK
from attio.utils import BackoffStrategy, RetryConfig


with SDK(
    oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
) as sdk:

    res = sdk.objects.get_v2_objects(,
        RetryConfig("backoff", BackoffStrategy(1, 50, 1.1, 100), False))

    # Handle response
    print(res)

If you'd like to override the default retry strategy for all operations that support retries, you can use the retry_config optional parameter when initializing the SDK:

from attio import SDK
from attio.utils import BackoffStrategy, RetryConfig


with SDK(
    retry_config=RetryConfig("backoff", BackoffStrategy(1, 50, 1.1, 100), False),
    oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
) as sdk:

    res = sdk.objects.get_v2_objects()

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Error Handling

SDKError is the base class for all HTTP error responses. It has the following properties:

Property Type Description
err.message str Error message
err.status_code int HTTP response status code eg 404
err.headers httpx.Headers HTTP response headers
err.body str HTTP body. Can be empty string if no body is returned.
err.raw_response httpx.Response Raw HTTP response
err.data Optional. Some errors may contain structured data. See Error Classes.

Example

from attio import SDK, errors


with SDK(
    oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
) as sdk:
    res = None
    try:

        res = sdk.objects.post_v2_objects(data={
            "api_slug": "people",
            "singular_noun": "Person",
            "plural_noun": "People",
        })

        # Handle response
        print(res)


    except errors.SDKError as e:
        # The base class for HTTP error responses
        print(e.message)
        print(e.status_code)
        print(e.body)
        print(e.headers)
        print(e.raw_response)

        # Depending on the method different errors may be thrown
        if isinstance(e, errors.QuotaExceededError):
            print(e.data.status_code)  # float
            print(e.data.type)  # models.PostV2ObjectsBadRequestType
            print(e.data.code)  # models.PostV2ObjectsCodeQuotaExceeded
            print(e.data.message)  # str

Error Classes

Primary error:

  • SDKError: The base class for HTTP error responses.
Less common errors (175)

Network errors:

Inherit from SDKError:

* Check the method documentation to see if the error is applicable.

Server Selection

Override Server URL Per-Client

The default server can be overridden globally by passing a URL to the server_url: str optional parameter when initializing the SDK client instance. For example:

from attio import SDK


with SDK(
    server_url="https://api.attio.com",
    oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
) as sdk:

    res = sdk.objects.get_v2_objects()

    # Handle response
    print(res)

Custom HTTP Client

The Python SDK makes API calls using the httpx HTTP library. In order to provide a convenient way to configure timeouts, cookies, proxies, custom headers, and other low-level configuration, you can initialize the SDK client with your own HTTP client instance. Depending on whether you are using the sync or async version of the SDK, you can pass an instance of HttpClient or AsyncHttpClient respectively, which are Protocol's ensuring that the client has the necessary methods to make API calls. This allows you to wrap the client with your own custom logic, such as adding custom headers, logging, or error handling, or you can just pass an instance of httpx.Client or httpx.AsyncClient directly.

For example, you could specify a header for every request that this sdk makes as follows:

from attio import SDK
import httpx

http_client = httpx.Client(headers={"x-custom-header": "someValue"})
s = SDK(client=http_client)

or you could wrap the client with your own custom logic:

from attio import SDK
from attio.httpclient import AsyncHttpClient
import httpx

class CustomClient(AsyncHttpClient):
    client: AsyncHttpClient

    def __init__(self, client: AsyncHttpClient):
        self.client = client

    async def send(
        self,
        request: httpx.Request,
        *,
        stream: bool = False,
        auth: Union[
            httpx._types.AuthTypes, httpx._client.UseClientDefault, None
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
        follow_redirects: Union[
            bool, httpx._client.UseClientDefault
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
    ) -> httpx.Response:
        request.headers["Client-Level-Header"] = "added by client"

        return await self.client.send(
            request, stream=stream, auth=auth, follow_redirects=follow_redirects
        )

    def build_request(
        self,
        method: str,
        url: httpx._types.URLTypes,
        *,
        content: Optional[httpx._types.RequestContent] = None,
        data: Optional[httpx._types.RequestData] = None,
        files: Optional[httpx._types.RequestFiles] = None,
        json: Optional[Any] = None,
        params: Optional[httpx._types.QueryParamTypes] = None,
        headers: Optional[httpx._types.HeaderTypes] = None,
        cookies: Optional[httpx._types.CookieTypes] = None,
        timeout: Union[
            httpx._types.TimeoutTypes, httpx._client.UseClientDefault
        ] = httpx.USE_CLIENT_DEFAULT,
        extensions: Optional[httpx._types.RequestExtensions] = None,
    ) -> httpx.Request:
        return self.client.build_request(
            method,
            url,
            content=content,
            data=data,
            files=files,
            json=json,
            params=params,
            headers=headers,
            cookies=cookies,
            timeout=timeout,
            extensions=extensions,
        )

s = SDK(async_client=CustomClient(httpx.AsyncClient()))

httpx2 (Pydantic's httpx fork)

httpx2 is Pydantic's maintained fork of httpx. To run this SDK on httpx2, call alias_httpx() at your program's entry point, before importing the SDK, so every import httpx — including the ones inside the SDK — resolves to httpx2:

import httpx2

httpx2.alias_httpx()

from attio import SDK

s = SDK()

An SDK can also be generated against httpx2 directly, so it depends on the fork instead of httpx, by setting python.httpClientLibrary: httpx2 in gen.yaml.

Resource Management

The SDK class implements the context manager protocol and registers a finalizer function to close the underlying sync and async HTTPX clients it uses under the hood. This will close HTTP connections, release memory and free up other resources held by the SDK. In short-lived Python programs and notebooks that make a few SDK method calls, resource management may not be a concern. However, in longer-lived programs, it is beneficial to create a single SDK instance via a context manager and reuse it across the application.

from attio import SDK
def main():

    with SDK(
        oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
    ) as sdk:
        # Rest of application here...


# Or when using async:
async def amain():

    async with SDK(
        oauth2="<YOUR_OAUTH2_HERE>",
    ) as sdk:
        # Rest of application here...

Debugging

You can setup your SDK to emit debug logs for SDK requests and responses.

You can pass your own logger class directly into your SDK.

from attio import SDK
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.DEBUG)
s = SDK(debug_logger=logging.getLogger("attio"))

Troubleshooting

401 or 403 responses

  • Confirm the OAuth2 token is valid and not expired.
  • Confirm the token includes the scopes required by the endpoint (scope requirements are listed in each operation doc).
  • Verify you are sending the token through SDK(oauth2=...).

Validation errors on create/update

  • Attribute keys and value shapes must match your Attio workspace schema.
  • Check the operation docs for the exact request model and examples.
  • Start from a simple payload, then add fields incrementally.

Async usage issues

  • Use async methods (ending in _async) inside async with SDK(...).
  • Do not mix sync and async clients in the same call path.

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