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pydocstyle

docstring style checker
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pydocstyle has 5.3M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 6.3.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2016.

Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2023.

It is built on top of importlib-metadata and snowballstemmer. It is used by 75 tracked packages, including prospector, pytest-pydocstyle and python-dev-tools.

GitHub topics include linter and docstrings.

Downloads
Day
129.4K
Week
1.1M
Month
5.3M
Stars
1.1K
Forks
190
Issues
113
Version
6.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
65
Adoption
60
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
977 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,258,036
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
5,258,036
Stars
1,117
Stars per 1k downloads
0.21
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
154,132
Month daily avg
175,268
Momentum
-12.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
1267 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
2.1
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
116
Monthly downloads
5,258,036
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
71
 
Issue Burden
101.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
61.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
290d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 60.3K
Windows 3.8K
macOS 1.9K

Python Versions

3.12
30.8% 16.2K
3.11
24.8% 13.0K
3.10
19.1% 10.0K
3.13
16.3% 8.5K
3.14
9.0% 4.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
46.9K
2. DE DE
4.2K
3. SG SG
4.0K
4. IE IE
2.4K
5. CN CN
1.7K
6. HK HK
835
7. GB GB
731
8. FR FR
687
9. NL NL
594
10. SE SE
594
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 30, 2016
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
6.3.0
Total Releases
22
Contributors
116
Open PRs
8
Archived
Yes
Author
Amir Rachum
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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