No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
textual has 366.5M monthly downloads and 36K GitHub stars. Version 8.2.8 supports Python <4.0,>=3.9, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of markdown-it-py, mdit-py-plugins and platformdirs. It is used by 3,351 tracked packages, including memray, mini-swe-agent and inspect-ai.
GitHub topics include terminal, tui and rich.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
93
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
366,510,020
•
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
366,510,020
Stars
36,473
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
12,173,182
Month daily avg
12,217,001
Momentum
-0.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=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
6 days ago
Total releases
254
Releases/year
49.9
•
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
197
Monthly downloads
366,510,020
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
78
Issue Burden
5.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
36.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.8%
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
10.4M
Windows
12.7K
macOS
12.3K
Python Versions
3.12
23.5%
2.4M
3.11
21.7%
2.3M
3.10
21.3%
2.2M
3.13
18.1%
1.9M
3.14
15.4%
1.6M
Top Countries
1.
US
9.8M
US
2.
GB
224.6K
GB
3.
IE
80.3K
IE
4.
NL
72.9K
NL
5.
DE
55.1K
DE
6.
SG
38.6K
SG
7.
IN
27.3K
IN
8.
CA
20.5K
CA
9.
KR
14.3K
KR
10.
FR
9.0K
FR
Dependencies
6
- markdown-it-py >=2.1.0
- mdit-py-plugins
- platformdirs <5,>=3.6.0
- pygments <3.0.0,>=2.19.2
- rich >=14.2.0
- typing-extensions <5.0.0,>=4.4.0
16 optional dependencies
- tree-sitter[syntax]
- tree-sitter-bash[syntax]
- tree-sitter-css[syntax]
- tree-sitter-go[syntax]
- tree-sitter-html[syntax]
- tree-sitter-java[syntax]
- tree-sitter-javascript[syntax]
- tree-sitter-json[syntax]
- tree-sitter-markdown[syntax]
- tree-sitter-python[syntax]
- tree-sitter-regex[syntax]
- tree-sitter-rust[syntax]
- tree-sitter-sql[syntax]
- tree-sitter-toml[syntax]
- tree-sitter-xml[syntax]
- tree-sitter-yaml[syntax]
Used By
3351
- memray
- mini-swe-agent
- inspect-ai
- crewai-cli
- mutmut
- mistral-vibe
- esp-idf-kconfig
- textual-serve
- verifiers
- textual-plotext
- textual-dev
- textual-autocomplete
- trinity-agent
- uipath-dev
- trogon
- aiperf
- pytest-textual-snapshot
- cisco-ai-skill-scanner
- bernstein
- openhands
- skylos
- dreadnode
- harlequin
- textual-fspicker
- batrachian-toad
- keepercommander
- textual-universal-directorytree
- drydock-cli
- prime
- praisonai
- tuipet
- nxplora
- smol-k8s-lab
- pdd-cli
- chutes
- remoroo
- youngcan-wyckoff-analysis
- splicecraft
- cmk-werk-zeug
- alpi-agent
- textual-fastdatatable
- alacorder
- textual-textarea
- geneva
- qubx
- nomenklatura
- tt-smi
- rich-cli
- nf-core
- textual-plot
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
June 3, 2021
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
8.2.8
Total Releases
254
Contributors
197
Open PRs
86
Archived
No
Author
Will McGugan
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh