openemail.me
Every method in this namespace: its signature, its parameters, what it returns and an example.
Methods
The API key or OAuth access token behind the client: its mode, scopes, role ceiling and workspace.
me.get()
Describe the API key or access token making the call
def get(*, api_key: str | None = None, timeout: float | None = None) -> KeyResourceReturns what the key is: its id, whether it is a live or test key, the workspace it belongs to, the scopes it can use and the allowlists that narrow who it may send as. It needs no scope, because a key may always describe itself, so it works with any valid key and is the first call to make when a request is refused.
scopes is the effective list and the only one that authorises anything. It is the scopes the key was created with intersected with the permissions of the role it was issued under, resolved on every request rather than frozen into the key. grantedScopes is what the key was created holding and roleId names the role that capped it, so a scope present in grantedScopes and missing from scopes was removed by that role. A 403 insufficient_scope on a key the console shows as holding the scope is almost always this, and the fix is to change the role rather than to mint another key.
A key can be narrowed by whole domains, by individual addresses, or by both. domainAllowlist holds whole domains, and the key may send as any address on one of them, including addresses created after the key was. addressAllowlist holds individual addresses and covers only those. Both None means the key may send as any address the workspace owns. When either is set the key is narrowed, and reads of sent mail, tracking and calendar narrow to the same set. An address whose domain is already in domainAllowlist is dropped from addressAllowlist when the key is saved, so the two lists never overlap.
Called with an OAuth access token it describes the token instead, and object tells the two apart. A key answers with object set to 'api_key' and kind set to 'apiKey'. A token answers with object set to 'oauth_token' and kind set to 'oauth', with id and roleId set to None, clientId naming the connected app and mode always 'live'. scopes and grantedScopes are the permissions the person approved for the app, and the allowlists are the addresses and domains the app may reach. expiresAt is when that approval runs out, or None when it never does. It is not the expiry of the access token, which the app renews with its refresh token.
Parameters
api_keystrDescribes this key instead of the credential the client was built with.
timeoutfloatSeconds this call may take, the response included, before it raises
OpenEmailNetworkErrorwithis_timeout. It overrides the client'stimeoutfor this call, and0turns the limit off.
Returns
KeyResource, one of two dicts. For an API key it is ApiKeySelfResource, with object set to 'api_key', kind, id, mode, scopes, grantedScopes, roleId, workspaceId, addressAllowlist and domainAllowlist. For an OAuth access token it is OauthTokenSelfResource, with object set to 'oauth_token', the same keys with id and roleId set to None, plus clientId and expiresAt. Compare object before reading clientId, and a type checker narrows the union for you.
Example
from openemail import openemail key = openemail.me.get() removed_by_role = sorted(set(key['grantedScopes']) - set(key['scopes']))print(key['mode'], key['workspaceId'], removed_by_role) if key['object'] == 'oauth_token': print(key['clientId'], key['expiresAt'])Notes
Narrowing a role takes effect on the next request without touching the key itself, so
scopescan shrink between two calls with the same secret. Replacing the secret is a separate act, andme.rotateis the call that does it.roleIdisNoneon a key with no ceiling, which is what every key issued before roles existed still has.A failure here raises
OpenEmailApiErrorwith status 401 and acodenaming the credential problem:missing_api_key,invalid_api_key,revoked_api_key,expired_api_key, orinactive_api_keyfor a key switched off in the console.An access token that has run out is a 401
expired_access_token, which the app answers by renewing it with its refresh token.invalid_access_tokenand thegrant_*codes mean the app has to be connected again.
Also available in
- API
GET /keys/self- TypeScript
me.get()- Ruby
me.get- CLI
openemail me get
me.ping()
Check that a key or access token authenticates
def ping(*, api_key: str | None = None, timeout: float | None = None) -> PingResourceAn authentication smoke test. It runs the same key check every other endpoint runs and answers with ok set to True, the key id, its mode, the workspace and the effective scopes. It needs no scope, so a key with none at all still gets a 200.
Use it in a health check or at process start to fail fast on a revoked, expired or mistyped key. The answer carries the same scope detail as me.get, scopes effective and grantedScopes as created with roleId naming the cap between them, but it leaves out both allowlists. Call me.get when you need to know which domains and which addresses the key may send as.
An OAuth access token gets the same answer with kind set to 'oauth', keyId and roleId set to None, clientId naming the connected app and mode always 'live'. A key answers with kind set to 'apiKey'.
Parameters
api_keystrChecks this key instead of the credential the client was built with.
timeoutfloatSeconds this call may take, the response included, before it raises
OpenEmailNetworkErrorwithis_timeout. It overrides the client'stimeoutfor this call, and0turns the limit off.
Returns
PingResource, a dict with ok set to True, kind, keyId, mode, scopes, grantedScopes, roleId and workspaceId, plus clientId for an OAuth access token.
Example
from openemail import openemail ping = openemail.me.ping() if 'emails:send' not in ping['scopes']: raise RuntimeError(f'Key {ping["keyId"]} cannot send mail')Notes
The id is
keyIdhere andidonme.get, and there is noobjectkey in this response, so tell a key from a token bykind.A bad key never comes back with
okset toFalse. The call raises anOpenEmailApiErrorwith status 401, sois_authis the check to make.
Also available in
- API
GET /ping- TypeScript
me.ping()- Ruby
me.ping- CLI
openemail me ping
me.rotate()
Replace the calling key's own secret
def rotate( *, api_key: str | None = None, timeout: float | None = None,) -> RotatedKeyResourceMints a new secret for the key making the call and returns the key as me.get describes it, without kind, plus token, the new key in full. That is the only place the value appears, so store it before anything else.
Everything else about the key survives. The id, the mode, the scopes, the role ceiling, the address allowlist and the domain allowlist all come back unchanged, so token is the only thing your configuration has to change. Because the id is stable, an audit trail joined on it stays joined up across rotations.
There is no overlap window. The old secret stops authenticating the moment this call commits, and neither secret can be shown again. Write token to wherever the key is read from before the next request, and build the next client from it, because a client keeps sending the secret it was created with. A lost response is the bad case: the rotation may have committed to a secret nobody saw, which leaves the key unusable until someone mints it a new secret in the console.
Parameters
api_keystrRotates this key instead of the one the client was built with.
timeoutfloatSeconds this call may take, the response included, before it raises
OpenEmailNetworkErrorwithis_timeout. It overrides the client'stimeoutfor this call, and0turns the limit off.
Returns
RotatedKeyResource, a dict with object set to 'api_key', id, mode, scopes, grantedScopes, roleId, workspaceId, addressAllowlist and domainAllowlist, then token, rotationCount and rotatedAt. token is the new key: oe_live_ or oe_test_, the 24 character key id, an underscore and 43 base64url characters.
Example
from pathlib import Path from openemail import openemail rotated = openemail.me.rotate() Path('openemail-api-key').write_text(rotated['token']) print(f'Rotation {rotated["rotationCount"]} committed at {rotated["rotatedAt"]}')Notes
It needs
keys:write, and a key without it gets 403insufficient_scope. No key holds that scope unless somebody gave it one in the console, so a key that cannot reach this call has to be rotated from there.Only an API key can rotate its own secret. Called with an OAuth access token it raises a 403
api_key_only, because an app renews its token with its refresh token instead.There is no request body and the success status is 200, not 201.
Not retried automatically. Repeating a rotation would invalidate the secret the first attempt returned, so a failure has to be judged rather than retried.
The 404 and the two 409s are races rather than everyday answers, because a key that is missing, revoked or expired cannot authenticate this call in the first place. They mean the key changed state between authenticating and rotating: 404 if the row went, 409
revokedor 409expiredotherwise. None of the three is rotatable, so the answer is a new key from the console.rotationCountis the count after this call, so the first rotation of a key answers 1, androtatedAtis when that rotation committed.
Also available in
- API
POST /keys/self/rotate- TypeScript
me.rotate()- Ruby
me.rotate- CLI
openemail me rotate