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SDK best practices

In order to get the best experience from the SDK, we recommend the following:

  1. Always use bulk operations. Unless you are testing or working on small datasets, use bulk operations for faster and more reliable performance.

    • create_data_rows instead of create_data_row

    • project.export_v2() instead of project.labels()

    • Label.bulk_delete(labels) instead of [label.delete() for label in labels]

  2. Use get_one() and get_many() methods to get elements of a paginated collection instead of list.

    • list(dataset.data_rows())[0] is going to query for every single data_row in your dataset.

  3. Make sure to use the latest version of the SDK.

    • Labelbox is a rapidly evolving company and we are constantly adding new features and optimizations.

GraphQL API

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We discourage customers from using the GraphQL API to integrate with Labelbox. Labelbox advises that customers use the Python SDK for all development.