How do I update my Toolkit config programmatically with the API?

Updating apps, engines, and frameworks

If you want to programmatically update all of the engines, apps, and frameworks to their latest versions, you can do so using the following code:

import sys
sys.path.append("<path_to_your_config>/install/core/python")
import sgtk

# substitute your Project id here or alternatively use sgtk_from_path()
tk = sgtk.sgtk_from_entity('Project', 161)
c=tk.get_command("updates")

# setup authentication
if hasattr(sgtk, "set_authenticated_user"): 
     from tank_vendor.shotgun_authentication import ShotgunAuthenticator
     user = ShotgunAuthenticator(sgtk.util.CoreDefaultsManager()).get_default_user() 
     sgtk.set_authenticated_user(user)

# finally, execute the command
c.execute({})

Updating the core

If you want to update your Project’s core version from a script in order to run it non-interactively, you can do so using the following code:

import sys
sys.path.append("<path_to_your_config>/install/core/python")
import sgtk

# substitute your Project id here or alternatively use sgtk_from_path()
tk = sgtk.sgtk_from_entity('Project', 161)
c=tk.get_command("core")

# setup authentication
if hasattr(sgtk, "set_authenticated_user"): 
    from tank_vendor.shotgun_authentication import ShotgunAuthenticator
    user = ShotgunAuthenticator(sgtk.util.CoreDefaultsManager()).get_default_user() 
    sgtk.set_authenticated_user(user)

# finally, execute the command
c.execute({})