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docopt-ng

Humane command line arguments parser. Now with maintenance, typehints, and complete test coverage.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

docopt-ng has 1.6M monthly downloads and 221 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2019.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2023.

It is used by 99 tracked packages, including stomp-py, mjml and pynastran.

GitHub topics include docopt, argparse and optparse.

Downloads
Day
54.3K
Week
343.2K
Month
1.6M
Stars
221
Forks
27
Issues
13
Version
0.9.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
47
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
730 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,587,546
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
1,587,546
Stars
221
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
49,025
Month daily avg
52,918
Momentum
-7.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
1133 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
0.8
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
717
Monthly downloads
1,587,546
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
62
 
Issue Burden
58.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2655.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
402d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 35.4K
Windows 501
macOS 257

Python Versions

3.12
42.1% 14.8K
3.11
41.3% 14.5K
3.13
7.1% 2.5K
3.14
6.3% 2.2K
3.10
3.3% 1.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
17.5K
2. AT AT
9.0K
3. IE IE
5.8K
4. SG SG
755
5. NL NL
495
6. GB GB
441
7. DE DE
402
8. BE BE
239
9. JP JP
193
10. IN IN
180
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
March 21, 2019
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
0.9.0
Total Releases
6
Contributors
717
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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