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configargparse

Drop-in replacement for argparse with added support for config files and environment variables.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

configargparse has 20.1M monthly downloads and 759 GitHub stars. Version 1.7.5 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is used by 323 tracked packages, including checkov, locust and locust-cloud.

Downloads
Day
660.2K
Week
4.5M
Month
20.1M
Stars
759
Forks
118
Issues
0
Version
1.7.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
61
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
62 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,058,080
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
20,058,080
Stars
759
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
• 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
642,275
Month daily avg
668,603
Momentum
-3.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
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
117 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
2.7
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
20,058,080
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
45
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
41.5%
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 312.5K
Windows 13.0K
macOS 5.6K

Python Versions

3.12
34.3% 104.0K
3.13
25.7% 77.9K
3.10
19.0% 57.6K
3.11
15.2% 46.0K
3.14
5.8% 17.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
240.2K
2. BE BE
28.4K
3. IE IE
12.8K
4. SG SG
8.2K
5. DE DE
6.8K
6. NL NL
5.0K
7. GB GB
4.3K
8. IN IN
3.3K
9. JP JP
2.6K
10. AU AU
2.5K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 25, 2014
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
1.7.5
Total Releases
33
Contributors
49
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
options argparse ConfigArgParse config environment variables envvars ENV environment optparse YAML INI
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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