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sphinx-doc

sphinx-autobuild

Watch a Sphinx directory and rebuild the documentation when a change is detected. Also includes a hot-reload web server.
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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-autobuild has 6M monthly downloads and 608 GitHub stars. Version 2025.8.25 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is built on top of colorama, sphinx and starlette. It is used by 41 tracked packages, including antinex-core, algomancy and hermesbaby.

Downloads
Day
186.5K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.0M
Stars
608
Forks
99
Issues
21
Version
2025.8.25

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
202 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,015,454
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
6,015,454
Stars
608
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
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
194,748
Month daily avg
200,515
Momentum
-2.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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 License
• 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
315 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
2.0
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
40
Monthly downloads
6,015,454
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
64
 
Issue Burden
34.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
112d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 145.6K
macOS 1.2K
Windows 1.0K

Python Versions

3.10
31.7% 45.7K
3.12
18.9% 27.2K
3.14
16.8% 24.3K
3.13
16.3% 23.5K
3.11
16.2% 23.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
145.2K
2. SG SG
1.4K
3. DE DE
954
4. HK HK
465
5. GB GB
327
6. CZ CZ
300
7. IE IE
237
8. UA UA
237
9. NL NL
227
10. CA CA
186

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
December 25, 2013
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
2025.8.25
Total Releases
25
Contributors
40
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Adam Turner
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py27 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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