usbx

usbx is a modern, powerful and user-friendly Python library for working with USB devices. It provides many useful features:

• Querying information about connected devices
• Communication with USB devices
• Notification when devices are connected and disconnected
• Single API for Windows, Linux and macOS
• Good documentation
• Thread-safe
• No need to install further software like libusb

usbx is easy to use:

>>> from usbx import usb
>>> for device in usb.get_devices():
...     print(device)
...
USD device 4295171929, vid=0x1a40, pid=0x0801, manufacturer=None, product=USB 2.0 Hub, serial=None
USD device 4295171974, vid=0x0b0e, pid=0x0412, manufacturer=None, product=Jabra SPEAK 410 USB, serial=783F92B9DD3Cx011200

Installing

usbx can be installed with pip:

python -m pip install usbx

Usage

The User Guide will get you started with the library. Also read Platform-specific Considerations as some operating systems might need extra steps to work with USB devices.

The API Reference documentation provides API-level documentation.

License

usbx is made available under the MIT License. For more details, see The MIT License.

Contributing

This is an open-source project that happily accepts contributions. Please see Contributing for details.

System Requirements

• Python 3.9 or higher
• 64-bit application
• Windows (x86-64 or ARM), Linux (x86-64 or ARM), macOS (x86-64 or ARM)
• For Linux: udev (usually goes together with systemd)