PyRank
rr-

docstring-parser

Parse Python docstrings in various flavors.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

docstring-parser has 251.3M monthly downloads and 268 GitHub stars. Version 0.18.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2018.

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

It is used by 602 tracked packages, including anthropic, google-cloud-aiplatform and cyclopts.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (rr-/docstring_parser) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
8.4M
Week
61.3M
Month
251.3M
Stars
268
Forks
54
Issues
17
Version
0.18.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
51
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
251,320,271
• 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
251,320,271
Stars
268
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
8,762,747
Month daily avg
8,377,342
Momentum
+4.6%
((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
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
83 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
3.0
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
22
Monthly downloads
251,320,271
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
56
 
Issue Burden
63.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
77d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 6.3M
Windows 109.7K
macOS 60.4K

Python Versions

3.12
35.7% 2.3M
3.13
28.6% 1.8M
3.11
23.8% 1.5M
3.10
7.6% 486.5K
3.14
4.2% 269.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
4.9M
2. SG SG
685.5K
3. DE DE
119.9K
4. JP JP
90.3K
5. IN IN
80.1K
6. IE IE
67.8K
7. GB GB
59.4K
8. NL NL
56.1K
9. AU AU
48.3K
10. CA CA
46.0K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
April 17, 2018
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
0.18.0
Total Releases
25
Contributors
22
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8 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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