URL: /sdk/python/overview

---
title: 'Introduction'
description: 'The Open Electricity Python SDK'
icon: 'book'
---

Open Electricity provides a Python SDK for accessing the API and analysing data.

The Python SDK is available on [PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/openelectricity/).

### Features

- Synchronous and asynchronous API clients
- Fully typed with comprehensive type annotations
- Automatic request retries and error handling
- Context manager support
- Modern Python (3.10+) with full type annotations
- Direct conversion to Pandas and Polars DataFrames for analysis


### Installation

<CodeGroup>

```bash uv
uv add openelectricity
```

```bash pip
pip install openelectricity
```

</CodeGroup>

### Project Source
The project source code is available on GitHub at [https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-python](https://github.com/opennem/openelectricity-python).

You can file issues and contribute to the project there.