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inquirer

A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces, based on Inquirer.js (https://github.com/SBoudrias/Inquirer.js/)
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

inquirer has 4.6M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 3.4.1 supports Python 3.9.2+, first published in 2014.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is built on top of blessed, editor and readchar. It is used by 556 tracked packages, including chalice, h2o-wave and open-interpreter.

Downloads
Day
122.2K
Week
958.5K
Month
4.6M
Stars
1.1K
Forks
105
Issues
29
Version
3.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
63
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
269 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,611,455
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
4,611,455
Stars
1,137
Stars per 1k downloads
0.25
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
136,925
Month daily avg
153,715
Momentum
-10.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.2
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
339 days ago
Total releases
49
Releases/year
4.0
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
34
Monthly downloads
4,611,455
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
25.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
69d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 83.4K
Windows 2.1K
macOS 830

Python Versions

3.10
34.9% 28.4K
3.12
30.8% 25.0K
3.11
20.6% 16.7K
3.13
10.4% 8.5K
3.14
3.3% 2.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
60.0K
2. BE BE
9.4K
3. IE IE
5.1K
4. IT IT
3.0K
5. DE DE
2.5K
6. SG SG
1.4K
7. CA CA
723
8. FI FI
611
9. IN IN
444
10. FR FR
389

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 8, 2014
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
3.4.1
Total Releases
49
Contributors
34
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Author
Miguel Ángel García
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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