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apiflask

apiflask

A lightweight Python web API framework.
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apiflask has 190K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 3.1.1, first published in 2021.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of apispec, flask and flask-httpauth. It is used by 4 tracked packages, including hiddifypanel, grants-shared and owlapp.

GitHub topics include api, rest and flask.

Downloads
Day
5.1K
Week
39.9K
Month
189.6K
Stars
1.1K
Forks
138
Issues
31
Version
3.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
64
Adoption
62
Community
55
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
189,641
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
189,641
Stars
1,128
Stars per 1k downloads
5.95
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
5,697
Month daily avg
6,321
Momentum
-9.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
• Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
13 days ago
Total releases
50
Releases/year
9.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
49
Monthly downloads
189,641
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
75
 
Issue Burden
27.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
54.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.3K
Windows 127
macOS 10

Python Versions

3.12
32.1% 703
3.11
23.1% 505
3.13
21.5% 471
3.10
13.5% 296
3.14
9.8% 214

Top Countries

1. US US
1.8K
2. HK HK
157
3. DE DE
114
4. NL NL
54
5. CA CA
51
6. FI FI
42
7. FR FR
39
8. IE IE
39
9. SG SG
24
10. GB GB
23

Dependencies

7
3 optional dependencies

Used By

4
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 27, 2021
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.1.1
Total Releases
50
Contributors
49
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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