Textualize/rich

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal.

57.5k stars · 2.4k forks · Python

At risk

At risk: one person wrote most commits, and no one has committed by hand in 90 days.

Why

One person wrote 90% of human commits in the last year, and no human has committed in the last 90 days. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A human commit in the last 90 days, or a second person taking a large share of commits.

Maintenance

Complete

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days: 0
Human commits, 90 days: 0
Human commits, 365 days: 163
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Jun 23, 2026 (3 months ago)
Last human commit: Jun 23, 2026 (3 months ago)
Authors, 90 days: 0
Last release: Apr 12, 2026 (6 months ago)
Median PR merge time: 2 hours

Responsiveness: of 29 recent issues, 17% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 hours.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 163 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 268

Top committers

willmcgugan: 90% of commits
joelostblom: 2% of commits
KRRT7: 2% of commits
TomerYogev: 2% of commits
akx: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jan 22, 2020 to Feb 6, 2020: about 467 more stars than usual, peak 168 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 8, 2020 to Apr 12, 2020: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 23 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
May 4, 2020 to Jun 14, 2020: about 5.6k more stars than usual, peak 949 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jul 5, 2020 to Jul 10, 2020: about 1.6k more stars than usual, peak 729 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 2, 2020 to Aug 6, 2020: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 379 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 4, 2020 to Oct 6, 2020: about 379 more stars than usual, peak 195 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 10, 2020 to Nov 13, 2020: about 369 more stars than usual, peak 167 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Nov 22, 2020 to Dec 4, 2020: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 328 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Dec 14, 2020 to Dec 17, 2020: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 595 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 15, 2021 to Feb 23, 2021: about 1.9k more stars than usual, peak 464 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 3, 2021 to Apr 6, 2021: about 569 more stars than usual, peak 275 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 24, 2021 to May 25, 2021: about 205 more stars than usual, peak 185 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 13, 2021 to Jun 19, 2021: about 643 more stars than usual, peak 268 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 8, 2021 to Aug 11, 2021: about 191 more stars than usual, peak 108 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 20, 2021 to Sep 22, 2021: about 263 more stars than usual, peak 207 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 29, 2021 to Oct 1, 2021: about 179 more stars than usual, peak 150 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 16, 2021 to Dec 17, 2021: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 109 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 15, 2022 to Jan 27, 2022: about 1.7k more stars than usual, peak 462 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Apr 4, 2022 to Apr 5, 2022: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 24, 2022 to Apr 27, 2022: about 201 more stars than usual, peak 107 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 4, 2022 to Jul 6, 2022: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 30, 2022 to Jul 31, 2022: about 67 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 3, 2022 to Aug 4, 2022: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 1, 2024 to Jul 2, 2024: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 130 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 3, 2025 to Mar 4, 2025: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 24, 2026 to Aug 25, 2026: about 94 more stars than usual, peak 72 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

5 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

rich (PYPI): latest 15.0.0, published Apr 12, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: Textualize/rich, deps.dev: PyPI rich

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: At risk
Oct 13, 2026: At risk
Oct 13, 2026: At risk

Computed 17 hours ago · method 2026.10.2