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tfranzel

drf-spectacular

Sane and flexible OpenAPI 3 schema generation for Django REST framework.
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drf-spectacular has 12.6M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 0.30.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2020.

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

It is built on top of django, djangorestframework and inflection. It is used by 182 tracked packages, including weblate, label-studio and drf-spectacular-jsonapi.

GitHub topics include rest-framework, openapi3 and django.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (tfranzel/drf-spectacular) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
400.4K
Week
2.8M
Month
12.6M
Stars
2.8K
Forks
325
Issues
180
Version
0.30.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
73
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
12,631,725
• 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
12,631,725
Stars
2,846
Stars per 1k downloads
0.23
• 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
406,113
Month daily avg
421,058
Momentum
-3.5%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
0 days ago
Total releases
66
Releases/year
10.4
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
141
Monthly downloads
12,631,725
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
66
 
Issue Burden
63.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
43.4%
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 143.0K
Windows 1.9K
macOS 863

Python Versions

3.12
38.4% 53.0K
3.13
26.2% 36.1K
3.11
18.7% 25.7K
3.14
13.8% 19.0K
3.10
3.0% 4.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
111.6K
2. DE DE
6.6K
3. SG SG
2.9K
4. IE IE
2.8K
5. IN IN
2.5K
6. GB GB
1.9K
7. BR BR
1.9K
8. FR FR
1.8K
9. NL NL
1.5K
10. JP JP
1.1K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
March 1, 2020
Last Release
14 hr ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.30.0
Total Releases
66
Contributors
141
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
django rest openapi schema api swagger
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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