C2PA Python library

The c2pa-python repository provides a Python library that can:

Read and validate C2PA manifest data from media files in supported formats.
Create and sign manifest data, and attach it to media files in supported formats.

Features:

Create and sign C2PA manifests using various signing algorithms.
Verify C2PA manifests and extract metadata.
Add assertions and ingredients to assets.
Examples and unit tests to demonstrate usage.

For the best experience, read the docs on the CAI Open Source SDK documentation website.

If you want to view the documentation in GitHub, see:

Using the Python library
Supported formats
Configuring the SDK using Context and Settings
Using Builder intents to ensure spec-compliant manifests
Using working stores and archvies
Selectively constructing manifests by filtering actions and ingredients
Diagram of public classes in the Python library and their relationships
Release notes

Prerequisites

This library requires Python version 3.10+.

Package installation

Install the c2pa-python package from PyPI by running:

pip install c2pa-python

To use the module in Python code, import the module like this:

import c2pa

Building from local c2pa-rs sources

Using a virtual environment with local builds

The make targets honor an active virtualenv. Create a virtual environment ./.venv and activate it before running them so commands use the project interpreter rather than the global Python interpreter:

make create-venv && source .venv/bin/activate

Build steps

By default the build downloads a prebuilt native library from a c2pa-rs release. To test the Python bindings against a local, unreleased c2pa-rs checkout, you can instead build the native library from source.

Prerequisites:

A local clone of c2pa-rs.
The Rust toolchain (cargo on your PATH).

Point C2PA_RS_PATH at your c2pa-rs checkout and run the build-from-source target:

export C2PA_RS_PATH=/path/to/c2pa-rs
make build-from-source C2PA_RS_PATH=$C2PA_RS_PATH

This does a clean build of the c2pa-c-ffi crate (with the file_io feature, which the Python wrapper requires), stages the resulting library under both artifacts/ and src/c2pa/libs/, and installs the package in editable mode, replacing any prebuilt artifacts from make download-native-artifacts. The release profile is used by default; to build the debug profile instead, pass EXTRA_BUILD_ARGS="--debug":

make build-from-source C2PA_RS_PATH=$C2PA_RS_PATH EXTRA_BUILD_ARGS="--debug"

Note on targets for macOS

On macOS this produces a universal (arm64+x86_64) library by default, which requires both Rust targets:

rustup target add aarch64-apple-darwin x86_64-apple-darwin

To build a single-architecture library instead, set C2PA_LIBS_PLATFORM to a specific platform (for example aarch64-apple-darwin).

Examples

See the examples directory for some helpful examples:

examples/read.py shows how to read and verify an asset with a C2PA manifest.
examples/sign.py shows how to sign and verify an asset with a C2PA manifest.
examples/training.py demonstrates how to add a "Do Not Train" assertion to an asset and verify it.

API reference documentation

Documentation is published at github.io/c2pa-python/api/c2pa.

To build documentation locally, refer to this section in Contributing to the project.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! For more information, see Contributing to the project.

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 and the MIT License. See the LICENSE-MIT and LICENSE-APACHE files for details.

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c2pa-python 0.37.3

C2PA Python library

Prerequisites

Package installation

Building from local c2pa-rs sources

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