workos 10.0.0

WorkOS Python Client

WorkOS Python Library

The WorkOS library for Python provides convenient access to the WorkOS API from applications written in Python, hosted on PyPI.

Documentation

See the API Reference for Python usage examples.

Installation

Requires Python 3.10+.

pip install workos

Quick Start

from workos import WorkOSClient

client = WorkOSClient(api_key="sk_1234", client_id="client_1234")

# List organizations
page = client.organizations.list_organizations()
for org in page.auto_paging_iter():
    print(org.name)

# Create an organization
org = client.organizations.create_organization(name="Acme Corp")
print(org.id)

Async Client

Every HTTP API method has an identical async counterpart on AsyncWorkOSClient. (Pure-local utilities such as webhook signature verification, Actions helpers, and PKCE are synchronous on both clients.)

from workos import AsyncWorkOSClient

async_client = AsyncWorkOSClient(api_key="sk_1234", client_id="client_1234")

page = await async_client.organizations.list_organizations()
async for org in page.auto_paging_iter():
    print(org.name)

Environment Variables

The client reads credentials from the environment when not passed explicitly:

Variable	Description
WORKOS_API_KEY	WorkOS API key
WORKOS_CLIENT_ID	WorkOS client ID
WORKOS_BASE_URL	Override the API base URL (defaults to https://api.workos.com/)
WORKOS_REQUEST_TIMEOUT	HTTP timeout in seconds (defaults to 60)

Available Resources

The client exposes the WorkOS API through typed namespace properties:

Property	Description
client.sso	Single Sign-On connections and authorization
client.organizations	Organization management
client.organization_domains	Organization domain verification
client.organization_membership	Organization membership management
client.user_management	Users, identities, auth methods, invitations
client.directory_sync	Directory connections and directory users/groups
client.groups	Organization group management
client.admin_portal	Admin Portal link generation
client.audit_logs	Audit log events, exports, and schemas
client.authorization	Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) resources, roles, permissions, and checks
client.events	Events API
client.webhooks	Webhook endpoint management and event verification
client.feature_flags	Feature flag management (list, enable/disable, targeting)
client.api_keys	Organization API key management
client.client_api	Client API token generation
client.connect	OAuth application management
client.widgets	Widget session tokens
client.multi_factor_auth	MFA enrollment and verification (also available as client.mfa)
client.pipes	Data Integrations
client.pipes_provider	Organization data integration configuration
client.radar	Radar risk scoring
client.passwordless	Passwordless authentication sessions
client.vault	Encrypted data vault
client.actions	AuthKit Actions signature verification and response signing
client.pkce	PKCE code verifier/challenge helpers

Pagination

Paginated endpoints return SyncPage[T] (or AsyncPage[T]) with built-in auto-pagination:

# Iterate through all pages automatically
for user in client.user_management.list_users().auto_paging_iter():
    print(user.email)

# Or work with a single page
page = client.user_management.list_users(limit=10)
print(page.data)        # List of items on this page
print(page.has_more())  # Whether more pages exist
print(page.after)       # Cursor for the next page

Error Handling

All API errors map to typed exception classes with rich context:

from workos import NotFoundError, RateLimitExceededError

try:
    client.organizations.get_organization("org_nonexistent")
except NotFoundError as e:
    print(f"Not found: {e.message}")
    print(f"Request ID: {e.request_id}")
except RateLimitExceededError as e:
    print(f"Retry after: {e.retry_after} seconds")

Exception	Status Code
BadRequestError	400
AuthenticationError	401
AuthorizationError	403
NotFoundError	404
ConflictError	409
UnprocessableEntityError	422
RateLimitExceededError	429
ServerError	5xx

Retries

The client automatically retries requests up to 3 times (configurable via the max_retries request option) on 429 and 5xx responses, timeouts, and connection errors, using exponential backoff with jitter and honoring Retry-After. The SDK attaches an auto-generated Idempotency-Key (UUID v4) to every POST request and reuses the same key across its internal retries.

Per-Request Options

Every API method accepts request_options for per-call overrides (local helpers such as webhook/Actions signature verification and PKCE utilities do not make HTTP calls and don't take request_options):

result = client.organizations.list_organizations(
    request_options={
        "timeout": 10,
        "max_retries": 5,
        "extra_headers": {"X-Custom": "value"},
        "idempotency_key": "my-key",
        "base_url": "https://staging.workos.com/",
    }
)

[!NOTE] The WorkOS API currently honors Idempotency-Key only on the Create Audit Log Event endpoint (audit_logs.create_event). Other endpoints accept the header but do not deduplicate requests, so a retried mutation elsewhere can still create a duplicate.

Type Safety

This SDK ships with full type annotations (py.typed / PEP 561) and works with mypy, pyright, and IDE autocompletion out of the box. All API resource models are @dataclass(slots=True) classes with from_dict() / to_dict() for serialization.

SDK Versioning

WorkOS follows Semantic Versioning. Breaking changes are only released in major versions. We strongly recommend reading changelogs before making major version upgrades.

Beta Releases

WorkOS has features in Beta that can be accessed via Beta releases. We would love for you to try these and share feedback with us before these features reach general availability (GA). To install a Beta version, please follow the installation steps above using the Beta release version.

Note: there can be breaking changes between Beta versions. We recommend pinning the package version to a specific version.

More Information

• Single Sign-On Guide
• User Management Guide
• AuthKit Guide
• Directory Sync Guide
• Admin Portal Guide
• Audit Logs Guide
• Authorization (FGA) Guide
• Feature Flags Guide
• Webhooks Guide
• Radar Guide