Label Studio Python Library

The Label Studio Python Library provides convenient access to the Label Studio API from applications written in Python.

Documentation

Explore the Label Studio API documentation here.

Installation

pip install --upgrade label-studio-sdk
# or
poetry add label-studio-sdk

Usage

from label_studio_sdk.client import LabelStudio

ls = LabelStudio(
    base_url='YOUR_LABEL_STUDIO_URL',  
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
)

Versions

SDK 2.0.0

In August 2025, we released SDK version 2.0.0.

This version has a number of documentation and functional improvements over SDK 1.

Enhancements

Enterprise-only

• Added a new projects.stats.iaa endpoint to return stats from the inter-annotator agreement matrix.
• You can now update tasks that have comments.
• Added support for sync to S3s (S3 with IAM role) exports.

Enterprise and open source

• Expanded support to include all project settings, many of which were missing in SDK 1. For example, in Enterprise environments you can now configure assignment_settings, review_settings, annotator_evaluation, and many more.
• Fixed passing the project parameter in actions.list() (broken in SDK 1).
• Relaxed request/response validation reduces pydantic errors in SDK 2.

Breaking changes

Enterprise-only

• comments.create no longer accepts a project argument.
• In prompts.indicators, the pk parameter is now id.
• In prompts.runs and prompts.versions, the id parameter is now prompt_id.
• workspaces.members.list responses are now objects instead of dictionaries.

Enterprise and open source

• In projects.exports calls, the project ID is now passed as id, while the export ID is passed as export_pk.
• Predictions returned in task responses are now objects instead of dictionaries.

SDK 1.0+

SDK 1 was released in June 2024.

If you use the Label Studio SDK 1 package in any automated pipelines, we strongly recommend pinning your SDK version to <2.0.0 until you can reconcile the breaking changes.

SDK <1

The version of label-studio-sdk<1 is deprecated and no longer supported. We recommend updating to the latest version.

To use SDK <1

If you still want to use the deprecated version, you can install it with pip install "label-studio-sdk<1".

OR You can find the branch with the old version by cloning the repository and checking out the branch as follows:

git clone https://github.com/HumanSignal/label-studio-sdk.git
cd label-studio-sdk
git fetch origin
git checkout release/0.0.34

OR you can change your import statements as follows:

from label_studio_sdk import Client
from label_studio_sdk.data_manager import Filters, Column, Operator, Type
from label_studio_sdk._legacy import Project

Examples

Check more examples here.

Create a new project

from label_studio_sdk.label_interface import LabelInterface
from label_studio_sdk.label_interface.create import labels

project = ls.projects.create(
    title="Project name",
    description="Project description",
    label_config=LabelInterface.create({
      "image": "Image",
      "bbox": labels(["cat", "dog"], tag_type="RectangleLabels")
    })
)

Create a new task

task = ls.tasks.create(
    project=project.id,
    data={"image": "https://example.com/image.jpg"}
)

Now you can open the project PROJECT_ID in the Label Studio UI and create annotations for the task.

Export annotations

annotations = [
    task.annotations
    for task in ls.tasks.list(project=project.id, fields='all')
    if task.annotations
]

Async client

from label_studio_sdk.client import AsyncLabelStudio

client = AsyncLabelStudio(
    api_key="YOUR_API_KEY",
)

Advanced

Timeouts

By default, requests time out after 60 seconds. You can configure this with a timeout option at the client or request level.

from label_studio_sdk.client import LabelStudio

ls = LabelStudio(
    # All timeouts set to 20 seconds
    timeout=20.0
)

ls.projects.create(..., {
    # Override timeout for a specific method
    timeout=20.0
})

Custom HTTP client

You can override the httpx client to customize it for your use-case. Some common use-cases include support for proxies and transports.

import httpx

from label_studio_sdk.client import LabelStudio

ls = LabelStudio(
    http_client=httpx.Client(
        proxies="http://my.test.proxy.example.com",
        transport=httpx.HTTPTransport(local_address="0.0.0.0"),
    ),
)

Enterprise features

Create comments

comment = ls.comments.create(
    project=project.id,
    annotation=annotation.id,
    text="Comment text"
)

Contributing

Please follow this guide to contribute to the SDK

While we value open-source contributions to this SDK, this library is generated programmatically. Additions made directly to this library would have to be moved over to our generation code, otherwise they would be overwritten upon the next generated release. Feel free to open a PR as a proof of concept, but know that we will not be able to merge it as-is. We suggest opening an issue first to discuss with us!

On the other hand, contributions to the README are always very welcome!