CumulusCI vs simple-salesforce

CumulusCI

Python framework for building portable automation for Salesforce projects (by SFDO-Tooling)

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cumulusci.readthedocs.io

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simple-salesforce

A very simple Salesforce.com REST API client for Python (by simple-salesforce)

Salesforce API api-client Python

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CumulusCI		simple-salesforce
	Project
1	Mentions	4
351	Stars	1,602
1.7%	Growth	1.1%
9.3	Activity	6.6
about 20 hours ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Python	Language	Python
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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CumulusCI

Posts with mentions or reviews of CumulusCI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-02.

The SF equivalent of contributing to open source projects?
2 projects | /r/salesforce | 2 Jan 2023

simple-salesforce

Posts with mentions or reviews of simple-salesforce. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-30.

Salesforce and Heroku integration
1 project | /r/salesforce | 7 May 2023

If you are not married to using java, I would reccomend using simple salesforce, which is a python package. https://github.com/simple-salesforce/simple-salesforce
Salesforce API frameworks & libraries
2 projects | /r/salesforce | 30 Nov 2022

For example, I use the simple-salesforce framework for python here
Noob: Can the Salesforce CLI be used for simple user-tasks? Can a user with basic, non-admin credentials use the CLI?
1 project | /r/salesforce | 9 May 2022

once you auth your org, getting an access token can be rather easy with sfdx force:org:display --json --verbose, which you can pipe into a python lib like simple salesforce ( https://github.com/simple-salesforce/simple-salesforce ).
Salesforce with Django
1 project | /r/django | 16 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing CumulusCI and simple-salesforce you can also consider the following projects:

download-salesforce-objects-and-fields-as-json - A CumulusCI project that helps you download a Salesforce org's objects and fields as JSON

simple-mockforce - A companion package for simple-salesforce that enables the testing of code that interacts with Salesforce's API

policy_sentry - IAM Least Privilege Policy Generator

github-traffic - get repository insight and traffic using python

fflib-apex-extensions - Extension for the fflib-apex-common Library. Introducing many advanced features on top of the Apex Enterprise Patterns

td-ameritrade-python-api - Unofficial Python API client library for TD Ameritrade. This library allows for easy access of the Standard API and allows users to build data pipelines for the Streaming API.

imgbb - A simple tool enabling you to asynchronously upload images to imgbb.

jsforce - Salesforce API Library for JavaScript applications (both on Node.js and web browser)

astrology_project - Project for Codecademy CS Path

Aura2LWC - This VSCode Extension automatically converts Aura Components to LWC

django-salesforce - Salesforce integration for Django's ORM using the SF REST API.

python-sonarqube-api - Python Client library for interacting with Community, Developer, and Enterprise Editions SonarQube's REST APIs and SonarCloud's REST APIs.