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flake8-docstrings

Integration of pydocstyle and flake8 for combined linting and reporting
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

flake8-docstrings has 2.4M monthly downloads and 158 GitHub stars. Version 1.7.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2013.

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

It is used by 21 tracked packages, including python-dev-tools, ni-python-styleguide and folio-data-import.

GitHub topics include flake8, flake8-plugin and flake8-extension.

Downloads
Day
55.0K
Week
511.7K
Month
2.4M
Stars
158
Forks
15
Issues
2
Version
1.7.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
42
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
924 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,427,972
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
2,427,972
Stars
158
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
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
73,101
Month daily avg
80,932
Momentum
-9.7%
((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
1258 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
2.0
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
52
Monthly downloads
2,427,972
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
12.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
346.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
334d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 29.3K
Windows 887
macOS 607

Python Versions

3.12
53.1% 13.9K
3.11
17.8% 4.7K
3.10
13.6% 3.6K
3.13
10.4% 2.7K
3.8
5.1% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
25.3K
2. SG SG
2.0K
3. CN CN
850
4. DE DE
625
5. HK HK
464
6. PL PL
310
7. RU RU
269
8. GB GB
244
9. CA CA
239
10. IE IE
213
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 22, 2013
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
1.7.0
Total Releases
26
Contributors
52
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Simon ANDRÉ
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
PEP 257 pydocstyle pep257 docstrings flake8
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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