Python SDK for the Proxmox Virtual Environment API. Generated
from the upstream apidoc.js from Proxmox VE via openapi-generator-cli with
custom Mustache template overrides.
Not an official Proxmox project. Community SDK derived from the upstream
apidoc.js. Always verify against the upstream API viewer. https://pve.proxmox.com/.
Requires Python ≥ 3.9.
pip install clientapi-pveOr for development:
pip install -r requirements.txtfrom clientapi_pve import Configuration, Pve
cfg = Configuration(
host='https://pve1.example.com:8006/api2/json',
api_key={'Authorization': 'PVEAPIToken=user@realm!tokenid=uuid-secret'},
)
pve = Pve(configuration=cfg)
# Per-tag properties are lazily instantiated and share the same ApiClient.
# `removeOperationIdPrefix=true` strips the tag prefix from method names,
# so the call is `pve.qemu.vm_status(...)`, not `pve.qemu.qemu_vm_status(...)` —
# you're already inside the `qemu` namespace.
status = pve.qemu.vm_status(node='pve1', vmid=100)
nodes = pve.nodes.get_nodes()Each per-tag API class lives at clientapi_pve.api.<tag>_api.<Tag>Api.
List its methods to see what's callable:
print([m for m in dir(pve.qemu) if not m.startswith('_')])Generated method-level docstrings explain parameters; the upstream endpoint reference is the upstream API viewer.
The unified Pve class wraps each per-tag API class (QemuApi,
LxcApi, ClusterApi, NodesApi, …) so consumers don't need to
instantiate them individually.
PVE encodes many fields as CLI-style shorthand strings
(net0=virtio,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1). Round-trip helpers are
emitted for every compound config schema:
from clientapi_pve.models import PveQemuNetConfig
cfg = PveQemuNetConfig(model='virtio', bridge='vmbr0', firewall=1)
shorthand = cfg.to_shorthand() # → 'virtio,bridge=vmbr0,firewall=1'
parsed = PveQemuNetConfig.from_shorthand(shorthand)Numbered properties (net0..net31, mp0..mp255, …) are exposed on
every model as a single collapsed nets / mps / … field:
req = QemuCreateVmRequest(
nets={
0: 'virtio,bridge=vmbr0',
3: 'e1000,bridge=vmbr1',
},
)
# Wire format: { 'net0': 'virtio,bridge=vmbr0', 'net3': 'e1000,bridge=vmbr1' }Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.