🚀 Install

Clientele has two installation options:

Extra	What's included	Use when
clientele or clientele[core]	httpx, pydantic, pydantic-settings, stamina	Writing API clients in your own code
clientele[cli]	everything above + click, rich, cicerone, jinja2, ruff, pyyaml	Generating clients from OpenAPI schemas

Core install (default)

Install the core library to write and run API clients:

uv

uv add clientele
# or explicitly:
uv add "clientele[core]"

pip

pip install clientele
# or explicitly:
pip install "clientele[core]"

CLI install

Install with the cli extra to use the clientele command-line tool and generate clients from OpenAPI schemas:

uv

uv add "clientele[cli]"

pip

pip install "clientele[cli]"

Once installed, you can run clientele version to confirm:

> clientele version
clientele 2.3.1

Next steps

• Clientele API guide to write your own API client
• Client creator to quick start an API client from an OpenAPI schema (requires clientele[cli])
• API server integration to learn how to integrate with popular Python API servers