Office365-REST-Python-Client VS microsoft-authentication-library-for-python

it depends, if you want script microsoft stuff like active directory powershell is the way to go, if you have to manage microsoft cloud stuff like exchange online or azure ad powershell is still probably better but you can also use python with graph api and if you need to write a more complex script python might be easier

I am trying to connect to SharePoint Online using Python using Certificate Authentication using https://github.com/vgrem/Office365-REST-Python-Client

I have tried https://github.com/vgrem/Office365-REST-Python-Client and I have tried Connect-SPOService via PowerShell.

Or not.. I started checking for SharePoint libraries in Python, and this is pretty much the only thing I could find: https://github.com/vgrem/Office365-REST-Python-Client. Which I guess it is fine, if it wasn't because it seems as if 2 of the authentication methods they support are kind of old, and the third one does not suit my company's security requirements (basically, anything that requires me to bypass conditional access won't be approved).

Interesting, would the SDK be an equivalent to, for example, the Office365-REST-Python-Client, except that it is being provided by Microsoft officially?

If Microsoft were to provide an official Python library, I would feel pretty safe and they don't seem to shy away from integration with Python, but I don't know how to narrow it down looking at their different examples. Other options developed by outside sources seem to be stuff like the Office365-REST-Python-Client, Microsoft Graph Core Python Client, etc. Is there any particular recommendation on a stable and easy-to-use library?

I wanted to create service principal as I read on https://github.com/vgrem/Office365-REST-Python-Client/issues/191 but it requires app domain, and I am not using one.

Couple google searches brought me to this GitHub page. https://github.com/vgrem/Office365-REST-Python-Client

# Title URL Accessed-On 1 Desktop app that calls web APIs: Acquire a token using WAM https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/scenario-desktop-acquire-token-wam 2023-01-11 2 Azure SDK Releases https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk/releases/latest/all/python.html 2023-01-11 3 azure-identity 1.13.0b1 https://pypi.org/project/azure-identity/1.13.0b1/ 2023-01-11 4 WAM https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-dotnet/wiki/wam 2023-01-11 5 class InteractiveBrowserCredential(InteractiveCredential) https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/main/sdk/identity/azure-identity/azure/identity/_credentials/browser.py 2023-01-11 6 Add WAM Support to MSAL for Python, for cross-language consistency #451 https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-python/issues/451 2023-01-11

There's solid support for authenticating to MS's servers (with device flow and everything) in Python proper using the Microsoft Authentication Library (MSAL), including device flow, but there's nothing about CP support. CP does have an Oauth2 library, but that seems to be only for accessing Google's servers.

I mean, there is MSAL library for Python: https://github.com/AzureAD/microsoft-authentication-library-for-python/wiki. I do not think there are supported libraries for MS Graph, you'd have to go by interacting with the API directly, or depend on those libraries.