Is there a way to only install the Prefect API client from the prefect package? I have some systems that interact with Prefect via the Python API, but they don’t need the entire server part of the package to work.

Not at this time, we share schemas across the server / client.

Just echoing that it would be great to have a lightweight client, the dependencies of Prefect server are relatively heavy. Plenty of solutions sharing schema between server/client, all take effort however (server imports client, separate schema package, etc).

Yep there’s an issue for this and it’s on our roadmap — it’s a lot of work though and will need to be done carefully to avoid breaking changes.

Awesome!

One option we are considering (and that has been considered by others) is generating the client from our OpenAPI spec

👍 I recall a OpenAPI to Pydantic object tool running around somewhere too.