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pdoc3

pdoc3

🐍 ➡️ 📜 Auto-generate API documentation for Python projects
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pdoc3 has 315K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.11.6 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2019.

It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Mar 2025.

It is built on top of mako and markdown. It is used by 55 tracked packages, including continuous-delivery-scripts, ehelply-bootstrapper and text-embeddings.

GitHub topics include documentation, generator and documentation-generator.

Downloads
Day
9.0K
Week
60.3K
Month
314.9K
Stars
1.2K
Forks
144
Issues
95
Version
0.11.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
64
Adoption
54
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
245 days ago
Monthly downloads
314,912
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
314,912
Stars
1,193
Stars per 1k downloads
3.79
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
8,609
Month daily avg
10,497
Momentum
-18.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
AGPL-3.0
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
473 days ago
Total releases
36
Releases/year
4.8
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
69
Monthly downloads
314,912
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
63
 
Issue Burden
79.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
227d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.2K
Windows 130
macOS 113

Python Versions

3.11
32.7% 851
3.10
29.8% 776
3.12
19.8% 517
3.14
8.9% 233
3.13
8.8% 228

Top Countries

1. US US
2.6K
2. CN CN
318
3. SG SG
120
4. NL NL
85
5. DE DE
82
6. IE IE
49
7. HK HK
45
8. GB GB
37
9. CA CA
30
10. FR FR
23

Package Information

License
AGPL-3.0
First Release
January 10, 2019
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
0.11.6
Total Releases
36
Contributors
69
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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