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authress
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This is the Authress SDK for Python. Authress provides an authorization API for user identity, access control, and api key management as a drop in SaaS.
The Nuget package connects to the Authress API. You can use Authress to build authentication and authorization directly into your applications and services. Additionally, Authress can be used locally to develop faster without needing an Authress Account.
pip install authress
(you may need to run pip with root permission: sudo pip install authress)
Then import the package:
import authress
See the SDK reference guide for a examples of commonly executed blocks with descriptions.
FAQs
Authress SDK for authorization as a service and interact with the Authress API.
We found that authress demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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