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webargs

A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, Pyramid, webapp2, Falcon, and aiohttp.
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Verified repo
Monthly downloads
1.8M
Weekly downloads
397.7K
GitHub stars
1.4K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
8.7.1
Requires Python
>=3.9
Licence
MIT License
Last Release
11 months ago
First Release
February 17, 2014
Total Releases
104
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
66
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,763,630
• 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
1,763,630
Stars
1,411
Stars per 1k downloads
0.80
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
56,821
Month daily avg
58,788
Momentum
-3.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
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Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
351 days ago
Total releases
104
Releases/year
8.2
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
56
Monthly downloads
1,763,630
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
3.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
341d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 29.5K
Windows 208
macOS 97

Python Versions

3.12
57.3% 15.1K
3.11
17.2% 4.5K
3.9
9.9% 2.6K
3.10
8.1% 2.1K
3.13
7.6% 2.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
20.2K
2. GB GB
2.1K
3. SG SG
1.3K
4. IE IE
977
5. DE DE
814
6. NL NL
617
7. JP JP
487
8. HK HK
399
9. BE BE
377
10. RU RU
348

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

3
21 optional dependencies
  • aiohttp>=3.0.8[frameworks]
    extra == "frameworks"
  • bottle>=0.12.13[frameworks]
    extra == "frameworks"
  • django>=2.2.0[frameworks]
    extra == "frameworks"
  • falcon>=2.0.0[frameworks]
    extra == "frameworks"
  • flask>=0.12.5[frameworks]
    extra == "frameworks"
  • furo==2025.9.25[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • packaging>=17.0[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • pre-commit<5.0,>=3.5[dev]
    extra == "dev"
  • pyramid>=1.9.1[frameworks]
    extra == "frameworks"
  • pytest[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • pytest-aiohttp>=0.3.0[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • pytest-asyncio[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • sphinx==8.2.3[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • sphinx-issues==5.0.1[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • tornado>=4.5.2[frameworks]
    extra == "frameworks"
  • tox[dev]
    extra == "dev"
  • webargs[dev]
    extra == "dev"
  • webargs[docs]
    extra == "docs"
  • webargs[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • webtest==3.0.7[tests]
    extra == "tests"
  • webtest-aiohttp==2.0.0[tests]
    extra == "tests"

Used By

54
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Repository details

Forks
168
Issues
5
Last Commit
1 week ago
Contributors
56
Open PRs
3
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
webargs http flask django bottle tornado aiohttp request arguments validation parameters rest api marshmallow
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