pyaxm 2026.5.18

Query Apple Business Manager using Python

The purpose of this repo is to create a python library to easily get information using the Apple Business Manager API using Python.

A CLI command is also included, pyacm-cli.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/applebusinessmanagerapi

Setup

If you want to setup the authentication using envvars, do the following:

You will need to setup 2 environmental variables that are provided when creating the private key in ABM:

AXM_CLIENT_ID and AXM_KEY_ID

Place the private key in your home directory inside the .config/pyaxm folder and rename it key.pem

This location will be used to store a cached access_token that can be reused until it expires. While testing I have experienced that requesting too many access tokens will result in a response with status code 400 when trying to get a new token.

Otherwise you will have to pass the client id, key id and private key as arguments to the client like so:

from pyaxm.client import Client

axm_client = Client(
    axm_client_id="CLIENT_ID",
    axm_key_id="KEY_ID",
    key_path="PRIVATE_KEY",
    token_path="TOKEN_PATH"
)

The token path is the location where the access token will be stored.

Installation:

pip install pyaxm

CLI:

A command-line interface (CLI) tool called pyaxm-cli is included for easy access to the API.

Overview

The CLI provides a convenient way to interact with the Apple Business Manager API directly from your terminal. It includes commands for managing devices, MDM servers, and retrieving device information.

Detailed Documentation

For comprehensive documentation of all available commands, options, and usage examples, please refer to the CLI documentation.

Updating Documentation

The CLI documentation is automatically generated from the code. To update it after making changes to the CLI implementation, run:

typer pyaxm.cli utils docs --name pyaxm-cli --output docs/cli.md

A GitHub workflow automatically checks that the documentation stays in sync.

Client:

Example usage:

from pyaxm.client import Client

axm_client = Client()

devices = axm_client.list_devices()
print(devices)

device = axm_client.get_device(device_id='SERIAL_NUMBER')
print(device)

mdm_servers = axm_client.list_mdm_servers()
print(mdm_servers)

# The MDM server ID can be extracted from listing all mdm servers
mdm_server = axm_client.list_devices_in_mdm_server(server_id="MDM_SERVER_ID")
print(mdm_server)

device_assigned_server = axm_client.list_devices_in_mdm_server(device_id='SERIAL_NUMBER')
print(device_assigned_server)

assignment_result = axm_client.assign_unassign_device_to_mdm_server(
    device_ids=['SERIAL_NUMBER', "ANOTHER_SERIAL_NUMBER"],
    server_id="MDM_SERVER_ID",
    action="ASSIGN_DEVICES"|"UNASSIGN_DEVICES"
)
print(assignment_result)

apple_care_coverage = axm_client.get_apple_care_coverage(device_id='SERIAL_NUMBER')
print(apple_care_coverage)

Issues:

• need to add tests

This is still a work in progress