ronf/asyncssh

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

AsyncSSH is a Python library providing asynchronous client and server implementations of the SSHv2 protocol, including SFTP and SCP, built on Python's asyncio framework. It supports a wide range of SSH features such as port forwarding, multiple authentication methods, public keys, certificates, and ssh-agent integration.

Use cases

• run remote commands over ssh from python asynchronously
• implement an ssh server in python
• transfer files with sftp or scp programmatically
• set up local or remote port forwarding over ssh
• automate ssh-based tasks with asyncio
• authenticate with public keys, passwords, or FIDO2 security keys

When to choose

• you need SSH client or server functionality in an asyncio-based Python application
• you need SFTP/SCP file transfer with async I/O
• you need advanced SSH features like forwarding, agent support, or X.509 certificates

When to avoid

• you need a simple blocking SSH client without asyncio
• you are not using Python 3.10+
• you need a command-line SSH tool rather than a library

Facets

library · maturity stable

ssh networking security cryptography file-system networking security developer-tools backend python windows cross-platform sshv2 asyncio sftp scp port-forwarding async-client-server linux macos

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