Python SDK

Detailed Python SDK docs for Keeper Secrets Manager

Download and Installation

Install with PIP

pip3 install -U keeper-secrets-manager-core

Source Code

Find the Python source code in the GitHub repository

Using the SDK

Initialize

Using token only to generate a new config (for later usage) requires at least one read operation to bind the token and fully populate config.json

Secrets Manager

SecretsManager(token, config)
# Using token, only to generate a config (for later usage),
# requires at least one access operation to bind the token
#get_secrets(uids=None)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)
# Using token only to generate the config 
# requires at least one access operation to bind the token
#secrets_manager.get_secrets(uids=None)

Parameter	Required	Description	Type
token	Yes	One Time Access Token	String
config	Yes	Storage Configuration	KeyValueStorage

Retrieve Secrets

Get Secrets

get_secrets(uids=None)

Example: Get All Secrets

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get all records
all_secrets = secrets_manager.get_secrets()

# print out all records
for secret in all_secrets:
    print(secret.dict)

Example: Get Secrets With a Filter

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by record UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA'])[0]

# print out secret
print(secret.dict)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
uids	String[]	Optional	None	Record UIDs to fetch

Response

Type: Record[]

All Keeper records, or records with the given UIDs

Retrieve Values From a Secret

Retrieve a Password

This shortcut gets the password of a secret once that secret has been retrieved from Keeper Secrets Manager.

Get Password

secret.field('password', single=True)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by record UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['<RECORD UID>'])[0]

# get password from record
my_secret_password = secret.field('password', single=True)

Retrieve Standard Fields

Field

secret.field(field_type, single=False, value=None)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by record UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['<RECORD UID>'])[0]

# get login field from the secret
my_secret_login = secret.field("login", single=True)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
field_type	String	Yes		Field type to get
single	boolean	Optional	False	Return only the first value
value	String or String[]	Optional	None	If passed, set the value of the field to the given value

Fields are found by type, for a list of field types see the Record Types documentation.

Retrieve Custom Fields

Custom Field

secret.custom_field(label, field_type=None, single=False, value=None)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA'])[0]

# Get a standard template field
password = secret.field('password', single=True)

# Get a custom field, e.g. API Key
api_key = secret.custom_field('API Key', single=True)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
label	String	Yes		Label of the custom field
field_type	String	Yes		Field type to get
single	boolean	Optional	False	Return only the first value
value	String or String[]	Optional	None	If passed, set the value of the field to the given value

Custom fields are any field that is not part of the record type definition, but can be added by users. For a list of fields in each standard record type, see the Record Types documentation.

It is possible for multiple fields of the same custom type to appear on a single record, to differentiate these fields, the field label is required.

Response

Type: String or String[]

the value or values of the field. Will be a single value only if the single=True option is passed.

Retrieve Secrets by Title

Records by Title

# get all matching records
get_secrets_by_title(record_title)

# get only the first matching record
get_secret_by_title(record_title)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json'))

# get the first secret matching the record title
secret = secrets_manager.get_secret_by_title("My Credentials")

# get all secrets matching the record title
secrets = secrets_manager.get_secrets_by_title("My Credentials")

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
record_title	String	Yes	Record title to search for

Retrieve Values using Keeper Notation

Get Notation

get_notation(query)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific standard field with Keeper Notation
password = secrets_manager.get_notation('EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA/field/password')[0]

# get a specific custom field with Keeper Notation
custom_field_value = secrets_manager.get_notation('EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA/custom_field/my_field')

See Keeper Notation documentation to learn about Keeper Notation format and capabilities

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
query	String	Yes		Keeper Notation query for getting a value from a specified field

Returns

Type: string or string[]

The value of the queried field

Retrieve a TOTP Code

Get TOTP Code

get_totp_code(url)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.utils import get_totp_code

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get TOTP url value from a record
url = record.get_standard_field_value('oneTimeCode', True)

# get code from TOTP url
totp = get_totp_code(url)
print(totp.code)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
url	String	Yes		TOTP Url

Update a Secret

Record update commands don't update local record data on success (esp. updated record revision) so any consecutive updates to an already updated record will fail due to revision mismatch. Make sure to reload all updated records after each update batch.

Save Changes to a Secret

Save Secret

save(record: KeeperRecord)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by UID
secret_to_update = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA'])[0]

# update a field value
secret_to_update.field('login', 'new login')

# update non-field values
secret_to_update.title = "New Title"
secret_to_update.dict["notes"] = "New Notes"
secret_to_update._update()

# save updated secret
secrets_manager.save(secret_to_update)

Transactional updates

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
     config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA'])[0]

# rotate password on the record
secret.field('password', 'new password')
# start a transaction
secrets_manager.save(secret, 'rotation')
# rotate password on remote host
success = rotate_remote_ssh_password('new password')
# complete the transaction - commit or rollback
secrets_manager.complete_transaction(secret.uid, rollback=not success)

record	KeeperRecord	Yes		Storage and query configuration

Set field values using the field method.

Fields are found by type, for a list of field types see the Record Types documentation. Some fields have multiple values, in these cases the value can be set to a list.

Update a Standard Field Value

Field

secret.field(field_type, single=False, value=None)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by record UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['<RECORD UID>'])[0]

# update login
secret.field("login", single=True, "My New Login")

# save secret
secrets_manager.save(secret)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
field_type	String	Yes		Field type to get
single	boolean	Optional	False	Return only the first value
value	String or String[]	Optional	None	If passed, set the value of the field to the given value

Fields are found by type, for a list of field types see the Record Types documentation.

Update a Custom Field Value

Custom Field

secret.custom_field(label, field_type=None, single=False, value=None)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA'])[0]

# Get a standard template field
password = secret.field('password', single=True)

# Set custom field 'API Key'
my_new_api_key = "wKridl2ULt20qGuiP3IY"
secret.custom_field('API Key', single=True, my_new_api_key)

# Save changes to the secret
secrets_manager.save(secret)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
label	String	Yes		Label of the custom field
field_type	String	Yes		Field type to get
single	boolean	Optional	False	Return only the first value
value	String or String[]	Optional	None	If passed, set the value of the field to the given value

Generate a Random Password

Generate Password

generate_password(length, lowercase, uppercase, digits, specialCharacters)

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.utils import generate_password

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# get a specific secret by UID
secret = secrets_manager.get_secrets(['EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA'])[0]

# generate a random password
password = generate_password()
# update a record with new password
secret.field('password', value=password)

# Save changes to the secret
secrets_manager.save(secret)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default
length	int	Optional	64
lowercase	int	Optional	0
uppercase	int	Optional	0
digits	int	Optional	0
specialCharacters	int	Optional	0

Each parameter indicates the min number of a type of character to include. For example, 'uppercase' indicates the minimum number of uppercase letters to include.

Download a File

Save File

file.save_file(file_path, create_folders=False)

Example

# Save all files to a /tmp folder (create folder if does not exist)
for file in secret.files:
    print("file: %s" % file)
    file.save_file("/tmp/" + file.name, True)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
file_path	String	Yes		Path to save file to
create_folders	boolean	No	False	Create folders in the file_path if not present

Upload a File

Upload File

Upload File:

upload_file(owner_record, file: my_file)

Creating the Keeper File Upload Object:

KeeperFileUpload.from_file(path, file_name=None, file_title=None, mime_type=None)

Example

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.core import KeeperFileUpload

secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# Get an individual secret by UID to attach the file to
UID_FILTER = 'XXX'
owner_record= secrets_manager.get_secrets([UID_FILTER])[0]

# Prepare file data for upload
my_file = KeeperFileUpload.from_file("./myFile.json", "myfile.json", "My File") 

# Upload file attached to the owner record and get the file UID
file_uid = secrets_manager.upload_file(owner_record, file = my_file)

Upload File

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
owner_record	KeeperRecord	Yes	The record to attach the uploaded file to
file	KeeperFileUpload	Yes	The File to upload

Keeper File Upload From File

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
path	string	Yes		Path to the file to upload
file_name	string	No	None	What the name of the file will be in Keeper once uploaded
file_title	string	No	None	What the title of the file will be in Keeper once uploaded
mime_type	string	No	None	The type of data in the file. If none is provided, 'application/octet-stream' will be used

Returns

Type: string

The file UID of the attached file

Create a Secret

Prerequisites:

• Shared folder UID

  • Shared folder must be accessible by the Secrets Manager Application

  • You and the Secrets Manager application must have edit permission

  • There must be at least one record in the shared folder

• Created records and record fields must be formatted correctly

  • See the documentation for expected field formats for each record type

• TOTP fields accept only URL generated outside of the KSM SDK

• After record creation, you can upload file attachments using upload_file

Create a Record

secrets_manager.create_secret(folder_uid, record)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default
folder_uid	String	Yes
record	KeeperRecord	Yes

Create Record in Sub-folder

secrets_manager.create_secret_with_options(create_options, record)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default
create_options	CreateOptions	Yes
record	KeeperRecord	Yes

Login Record Example

This example creates a login type record with a login value and a generated password.

Replace '[FOLDER UID]' in the example with the UID of a shared folder that your Secrets Manager has access to.

# create a new login record
new_login_record = RecordCreate('login', "Sample KSM Record: Python")
# fill in login and password fields
new_login_record.fields = [
    RecordField(field_type='login', value='[e-mail]'),
    RecordField(field_type='password', value=generate_password())
]
# fill in notes
new_login_record.notes = 'This is a Python record creation example'
# create the new record and get its UID
record_uid = secrets_manager.create_secret('[FOLDER UID]', new_login_record)

Custom Type Example

This example creates a record with a custom record type.

Replace '[FOLDER UID]' in the example with the UID of a shared folder that your Secrets Manager has access to.

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.dto.dtos import RecordCreate, RecordField
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.utils import generate_password

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    # token='US:XXXXXX',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

custom_login = RecordCreate(record_type='Custom Login', title='Sample Custom Type KSM Record: Python')
custom_login.fields = [
    RecordField(field_type='host', 
                value={'hostName': '127.0.0.1', 'port': '8080'}, 
                label="My Custom Host lbl", 
                required=True),
    RecordField(field_type='login', 
                value='[e-mail]', 
                label='My Custom Login lbl', 
                required=True),
    RecordField(field_type='password', 
                value=generate_password(), 
                label='My Custom Password lbl', 
                required=True),
    RecordField(field_type='url', 
                value='http://localhost:8080/login', 
                label='My Login Page', 
                required=True),
    RecordField(field_type='securityQuestion', 
                value={
                    'question': 'What is one plus one (write just a number)', 
                    'answer': '2'
                }, 
                label='My Question 1', 
                required=True),
    RecordField(field_type='phone', 
                value={
                  'region': 'US', 
                  'number': '510-444-3333', 
                  'ext': '2345', 
                  'type': 'Mobile'}, 
                label='My Phone Number'),
    RecordField(field_type='date', 
                value=1641934793000, 
                label='My Date Lbl', 
                required=True),
    RecordField(field_type='name', 
                value={
                  'first': 'John', 
                  'middle': 'Patrick', 
                  'last': 'Smith'}, 
                label="My Custom Name lbl", 
                required=True),
    RecordField(field_type='oneTimeCode', 
                value='otpauth://totp/Example:[e-mail]?secret=JBSWY3DPEHPK3PXP&issuer=Example', 
                label='My TOTP', 
                required=True)
]

custom_login.custom = [
    RecordField(field_type='phone', 
                value={'region': 'US', 'number': '510-222-5555', 'ext': '99887', 'type': 'Mobile'}, 
                label='My Custom Phone Lbl 1'),
    RecordField(field_type='phone', 
                value={'region': 'US', 'number': '510-111-3333', 'ext': '45674', 'type': 'Mobile'}, 
                label='My Custom Phone Lbl 2'),
]

custom_login.notes = "\tThis custom type record was created\n\tvia Python SDK copied from https://docs.keeper.io/secrets-manager/secrets-manager/developer-sdk-library/python-sdk"

record_uid = secrets_manager.create_secret('[FOLDER UID]', custom_login)

Returns

Type: string

The record UID of the new record

Delete a Secret

The Python KSM SDK can delete records in the Keeper Vault.

Delete Secret

secrets_manager.delete_secret(record_uid)

Parameter	Type	Required
record_uid	string	Yes

Example

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

# setup secrets manger
secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json')
)

# delete a specific secret by record UID
secret = secrets_manager.delete_secret('EG6KdJaaLG7esRZbMnfbFA')

Caching

To protect against losing access to your secrets when network access is lost, the Python SDK allows caching of secrets to the local machine in an encrypted file.

Setup and Configure Cache

In order to setup caching in the Python SDK, include a caching post function when creating a SecretsManager object.

The Python SDK includes a default caching function in KSMCache class which stores cached queries to a local file thus serving as a disaster recovery function (as long as there's network connectivity it always prefers network over cached data and will use cache only if web vault is inaccessible). You can create your own caching function using KSMCache as a starting point - ex. one that prefers local cache over network access and provide own cache management (ex. refresh cached data once every 5 min)

secrets_manager = SecretsManager(
    token='<One Time Access Token>',
    config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json'),
    custom_post_function=KSMCache.caching_post_function
)

The default caching function in KSMCache class always stores last request only - ex. filtered request on UID1 but on disconnect request UID2 from same cache will return empty response (although UID2 may be shared to the same KSM app but it was not cached)

Updating a record from cache (or creating new record) invalidates cached record data and consecutive updates of the same record will fail. Batch updates work as long as they modify different records. Always follow up cached record updates with a call to get_secrets function to refresh cache (and pull updated metadata from vault like the new record revision etc.)

Folders

Folders have full CRUD support - create, read, update and delete operations.

Read Folders

Downloads full folder hierarchy.

get_folders()

Response

Type: List[KeeperFolder]

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

secrets_manager = SecretsManager(config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json'))
folders = secrets_manager.get_folders()

Create a Folder

Requires CreateOptions and folder name to be provided. The folder UID parameter in CreateOptions is required - UID of a shared folder, while sub-folder UID is optional and if missing new regular folder is created directly under the parent (shared folder). There's no requirement for the sub-folder to be a direct descendant of the parent shared folder - it could be many levels deep.

create_folder(create_options: CreateOptions, folder_name: str, folders=None)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
create_options	CreateOptions	Yes		The parent and sub-folder UIDs
folder_name	str	Yes		The Folder name
folders	List[KeeperFolder]	No	None	List of folders to use in the search for parent and sub-folder from CreateOptions

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.core import CreateOptions
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

secrets_manager = SecretsManager(config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json'))
co = CreateOptions(folder_uid="[PARENT_SHARED_FOLDER_UID]", subfolder_uid="")
new_folder_uid = secrets_manager.create_folder(co, "new_folder")

Update a Folder

Updates the folder metadata - currently folder name only.

update_folder(folder_uid: str, folder_name: str, folders=None)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
folder_uid	str	Yes		The folder UID
folder_name	str	Yes		The new folder name
folders	List[KeeperFolder]	No	None	List of folders to use in the search for parent folder

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

secrets_manager = SecretsManager(config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json'))
secrets_manager.update_folder("[FOLDER_UID]", "new_folder_name")

Delete Folders

Removes a list of folders. Use force_deletion flag to remove non-empty folders.

When using force_deletion avoid sending parent with its children folder UIDs. Depending on the delete order you may get an error - ex. if parent force-deleted child first. There's no guarantee that list will always be processed in FIFO order.

Any folders UIDs missing from the vault or not shared to the KSM Application will not result in error.

delete_folder(folder_uids: List[str], force_deletion: bool = False)

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
folder_uids	List[str]	Yes		The folder UID list
force_deletion	bool	No	False	Force deletion of non-empty folders

Example Usage

from keeper_secrets_manager_core import SecretsManager
from keeper_secrets_manager_core.storage import FileKeyValueStorage

secrets_manager = SecretsManager(config=FileKeyValueStorage('ksm-config.json'))
secrets_manager.delete_folder(["[FOLDER_UID1]", "[FOLDER_UID2]"], True)