# koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean

🐍🐳 Python module to manage Digital Ocean droplets

Repository: https://github.com/koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/python-digitalocean
Language: Python
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: python, digitalocean, api
Last push: 2023-08-09T22:18:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4949, "days_push": 1120, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1283, forks 297 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:14.430350+00:00)

## What it is
A Python module providing easy access to the DigitalOcean API for managing droplets, images, SSH keys, firewalls, domains, and projects. It wraps the DigitalOcean REST API in Pythonic objects for programmatic cloud infrastructure management.

## Use cases
- manage digitalocean droplets from python
- create and destroy cloud servers programmatically
- automate digitalocean infrastructure
- manage dns records on digitalocean via api
- add ssh keys to digitalocean account
- list and tag droplets by script

## When to choose
- you need to automate DigitalOcean resources from Python code
- you want a simple object-oriented wrapper over the DigitalOcean API
- you are scripting droplet lifecycle operations like create, shutdown, or tagging

## When to avoid
- you use a different cloud provider like AWS, GCP, or Azure
- you need full coverage of the latest DigitalOcean API features, as the library is in maintenance mode
- you prefer Terraform or another infrastructure-as-code tool for provisioning

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: http-client, sdk, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools, apis
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: digitalocean, api-wrapper, droplets, infrastructure, cloud-api, automation

## Member repositories
- koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:14.430350+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:57:00.155889+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/koalalorenzo/python-digitalocean (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:14.430350+00:00, sha cf1631feccf0)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/python-digitalocean/json (fetched 2026-08-29T12:12:43.980929+00:00, sha 9bbecf8be57f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.