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shtab

↔️ Automagic shell tab completion for Python CLI applications
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

shtab has 5M monthly downloads and 456 GitHub stars. Version 1.8.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2020.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jul 2026.

It is used by 90 tracked packages, including dvc, aider-chat and glances.

GitHub topics include cli, completion and tab-completion.

Downloads
Day
139.1K
Week
1.7M
Month
5.0M
Stars
456
Forks
40
Issues
28
Version
1.8.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
53
Adoption
100
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,977,161
• 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
4,977,161
Stars
456
Stars per 1k downloads
0.09
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
240,063
Month daily avg
165,905
Momentum
+44.7%
((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
MPL-2.0
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
3 days ago
Total releases
48
Releases/year
7.9
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
30
Monthly downloads
4,977,161
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
54
 
Issue Burden
61.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
75.0%
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 74.7K
Windows 4.5K
macOS 1.8K

Python Versions

3.12
38.8% 30.7K
3.11
26.0% 20.5K
3.10
15.7% 12.4K
3.13
14.5% 11.4K
3.14
5.2% 4.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
46.1K
2. IE IE
8.7K
3. IT IT
5.8K
4. BR BR
3.0K
5. KR KR
2.9K
6. CA CA
2.3K
7. NL NL
2.1K
8. GB GB
1.3K
9. DE DE
1.1K
10. SG SG
1.1K

Package Information

License
MPL-2.0
First Release
June 17, 2020
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
1.8.1
Total Releases
48
Contributors
30
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
tab complete completion shell bash zsh argparse
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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