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sphinx-doc

sphinx-argparse

A Sphinx extension to automatically document argparse commands and options
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

sphinx-argparse has 4.5M monthly downloads and 38 GitHub stars. Version 0.6.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

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

It is built on top of docutils and sphinx. It is used by 17 tracked packages, including indic-nlp-library-itt, pigweed and vjer.

GitHub topics include sphinx and sphinx-extension.

Downloads
Day
133.6K
Week
974.0K
Month
4.5M
Stars
38
Forks
31
Issues
20
Version
0.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
37
Adoption
70
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,494,854
• 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
4,494,854
Stars
38
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
139,136
Month daily avg
149,828
Momentum
-7.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
5 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
2.4
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
6
Monthly downloads
4,494,854
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
57
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 103.4K
Windows 718
macOS 462

Python Versions

3.10
29.2% 30.2K
3.12
21.2% 21.9K
3.11
19.1% 19.7K
3.13
16.4% 16.9K
3.14
14.1% 14.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
100.5K
2. GB GB
1.9K
3. IN IN
825
4. SG SG
305
5. NL NL
260
6. DE DE
186
7. CN CN
104
8. FR FR
93
9. IE IE
73
10. BE BE
72
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
September 5, 2013
Last Release
6 days ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
0.6.0
Total Releases
31
Contributors
6
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 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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