Maton Python SDK

Official Python SDK for Maton — connect and automate 150+ apps (Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Notion, HubSpot, Airtable, and more) from Python.

Install

pip install maton-ai
# or
uv add maton-ai
# or
poetry add maton-ai

Quickstart

Sign in once through the browser, then construct the client with no arguments:

import maton_ai

maton_ai.login()  # opens a browser; stores the session locally

from maton_ai import Maton

maton = Maton()

conn = maton.connection.create(app="gmail")
connection_id = conn["id"]

gmail = maton.google_mail(connection=connection_id)
messages = gmail.message.list(q="is:unread", max_results=10)
gmail.message.send(to="alice@example.com", subject="hi", body="hello")

Authentication

maton_ai.login() runs an OAuth flow in your browser and stores the session locally. Nothing else is required: the SDK signs in, renews, and signs out on its own, with no other Maton tool involved.

maton_ai.login()  # sign in, and make it the active session
maton_ai.login(make_active=False)  # add a session without switching to it
maton_ai.logout()  # revoke and clear the active session
maton_ai.logout("alice@example.com")  # sign one account out

When the authorization server refuses, login() raises maton_ai.OAuthError — a MatonError subclass that carries the server's own error code as .code, so access_denied (the user declined) is distinguishable from a misconfigured client. Everything else that can go wrong on the way — discovery, a timeout waiting for the browser — raises MatonError. logout() clears the local session even when the revocation call fails, so a machine can always be signed out.

Credentials resolve in this order:

1. Maton(profile="...")
2. Maton(api_key="...")
3. the MATON_API_KEY environment variable
4. MATON_PROFILE
5. the active stored session, or the sole one when none is marked active

Explicit credentials always win over ambient machine state. Passing both profile= and api_key= is rejected as ambiguous, and a named profile that cannot be resolved raises rather than quietly authenticating as another account.

One deliberate difference from the Maton CLI. In the CLI, MATON_API_KEY is a global override that outranks even -p/--profile. In this SDK an explicit profile= argument outranks MATON_API_KEY, because an argument written in code is a stronger signal of intent than an exported variable, and because a multi-tenant process must be able to select an account on a machine that happens to have MATON_API_KEY set. MATON_PROFILE does not outrank MATON_API_KEY — between two ambient sources, the CLI's order is kept.

maton = Maton(profile="alice@example.com")  # a specific account

An API key remains the right choice where a browser sign-in is impossible, such as CI:

maton = Maton(api_key=os.environ["MATON_API_KEY"])

Where the session is stored

Session metadata goes to the python section of credentials.json in ~/.config/maton on macOS and Linux, or %AppData%\Maton on Windows. The file is shared with the other Maton SDKs, while each SDK keeps independent profiles and an independent active-profile selection. $MATON_CONFIG_DIR overrides the directory outright, and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/maton takes precedence over the defaults. The tokens themselves go to the OS keyring when the optional extra is installed:

pip install "maton-ai[keyring]"

Without it, tokens are written to credentials.json in plaintext at mode 0600, and login() warns that it did so. Installing the extra is recommended on any machine where that file is backed up or synced.

Access tokens are short-lived; the SDK renews them in-process from the stored refresh token, so a long-running client keeps working without re-authenticating.

The same pattern works for every supported app:

slack = maton.slack(connection=slack_conn_id)
slack.message.send(channel="#general", text="deploy finished ✅")

gh = maton.github(connection=gh_conn_id)
gh.issue.create(repo="maton-ai/maton-py", title="bug: ...", body="...")

notion = maton.notion(connection=notion_conn_id)
notion.data_source.query(data_source_id="...", filter={"property": "Status", "status": {"equals": "Done"}})

hubspot = maton.hubspot(connection=hubspot_conn_id)
hubspot.contact.list(limit=25)

There are three places to select a connection, in order of precedence (per-call beats accessor beats constructor):

maton = Maton(api_key=..., connection=connection_id)

gmail = maton.google_mail(connection=connection_id)
gmail.message.list(q="is:unread")

maton.google_mail.message.list(q="is:unread", connection=connection_id)

Generic passthrough:

maton.api.post(
    "google-mail",
    "/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send",
    json={"raw": "..."},
    connection=connection_id,
)

Triggers

Triggers register an event source (e.g. GitHub pull_request.opened) and fan matching events out to webhook destinations. Manage them through maton.trigger, with maton.trigger.destination and maton.trigger.event sub-resources:

trigger = maton.trigger.create(
    source="github",
    event_type="pull_request.opened",
    connection_id=gh_conn_id,
    parameters={"repo": "maton-ai/cli"},
    destinations=[{"url": "https://example.com/hook"}],
)
trigger_id = trigger["trigger"]["trigger_id"]

maton.trigger.list(source="github", status="ENABLED")
maton.trigger.update(trigger_id, status="DISABLED")

dst = maton.trigger.destination.create(trigger_id, url="https://example.com/hook")
maton.trigger.destination.rotate_secret(trigger_id, dst["destination"]["destination_id"])

events = maton.trigger.event.list(trigger_id, limit=20)
maton.trigger.event.replay(trigger_id, events["events"][0]["event_id"])

for event in maton.trigger.event.watch(trigger_id):
    handle(event)

Supported apps

Reliability

Every call goes through an httpx-based client with automatic retries. The defaults are configurable on the constructor:

maton = Maton(
    api_key=...,
    timeout=30.0,  # per-request timeout, seconds
    max_retries=2,  # retry attempts on transient failures
    max_backoff=20.0,  # cap on a single backoff sleep, seconds
)

Retries fire on connection errors and on 429 / 500 / 502 / 503 / 504; other 4xx/5xx surface immediately. Backoff is truncated exponential with full jitter (botocore standard mode), and honors a server-provided Retry-After header.

Errors

All failures raise a subclass of MatonError, each carrying status_code, request_id, and the parsed body:

A handful of apps wrap their vendor-specific error envelopes (e.g. a GraphQL errors array or a Slack ok: false payload) in a dedicated subclass, so you can catch them by app while still falling back to MatonError:

from maton_ai import MatonError, TooManyRequestsError

try:
    maton.google_mail.message.list(q="is:unread", connection=connection_id)
except TooManyRequestsError as exc:
    print("slow down; retry after", exc.retry_after)
except MatonError as exc:
    print(exc.status_code, exc.request_id, exc.body)