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argh

An argparse wrapper that doesn't make you say "argh" each time you deal with it.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

argh has 1.8M monthly downloads and 382 GitHub stars. Version 0.31.3 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2010.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a copyleft license, last released in Jul 2024.

It is used by 112 tracked packages, including gffutils, skymarshal and pykern.

Downloads
Day
66.5K
Week
445.2K
Month
1.8M
Stars
382
Forks
56
Issues
35
Version
0.31.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
53
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
723 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,765,533
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
1,765,533
Stars
382
Stars per 1k downloads
0.22
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
63,600
Month daily avg
58,851
Momentum
+8.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
License categories
License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
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
723 days ago
Total releases
64
Releases/year
4.1
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
25
Monthly downloads
1,765,533
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
67
 
Issue Burden
91.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
13.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
44.6%
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 33.0K
Windows 349
macOS 111

Python Versions

3.12
83.3% 26.1K
3.11
7.7% 2.4K
3.10
4.1% 1.3K
3.9
2.5% 774
3.14
2.5% 773

Top Countries

1. US US
28.7K
2. DK DK
2.8K
3. HU HU
464
4. CN CN
426
5. GB GB
336
6. SG SG
325
7. DE DE
258
8. ES ES
236
9. HK HK
133
10. AU AU
91

Package Information

License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
First Release
November 12, 2010
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.31.3
Total Releases
64
Contributors
25
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
cli command line argparse optparse argument option
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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