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rich-argparse

A rich help formatter for argparse
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

rich-argparse has 23.5M monthly downloads and 207 GitHub stars. Version 1.8.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2022.

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

It is built on top of rich. It is used by 314 tracked packages, including apache-airflow-core, dlt and cmd2.

GitHub topics include argparse, rich and cli.

Downloads
Day
903.6K
Week
6.0M
Month
23.5M
Stars
207
Forks
17
Issues
3
Version
1.8.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
45
Adoption
80
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
23,544,634
• 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
23,544,634
Stars
207
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
858,505
Month daily avg
784,821
Momentum
+9.4%
((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
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
66 days ago
Total releases
24
Releases/year
6.2
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
9
Monthly downloads
23,544,634
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
31
 
Issue Burden
14.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
14.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
52.9%
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 567.6K
Windows 2.2K
macOS 1.4K

Python Versions

3.12
28.8% 154.2K
3.10
26.1% 140.0K
3.11
25.6% 137.5K
3.13
12.2% 65.6K
3.14
7.2% 38.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
467.2K
2. SG SG
22.3K
3. IE IE
18.3K
4. DE DE
15.6K
5. NL NL
7.7K
6. GB GB
5.6K
7. KR KR
5.5K
8. IN IN
3.9K
9. FR FR
3.8K
10. FI FI
3.1K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
September 3, 2022
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.8.0
Total Releases
24
Contributors
9
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
argparse help-formatter optparse rich
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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