vinta/awesome-python

The definitive list that answers "I want to do X in Python, which tool should I use?"

327.3k stars · 28.9k forks · Python

Caution

Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.

Why

One person wrote 96% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)

What would change this

A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.; Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.; Issues are disabled, so response time is not measured.)

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 322
Human commits, 90 days: 540
Human commits, 365 days: 1.3k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 0%
Last commit: Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
Last human commit: Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
Authors, 90 days: 11
Last release: none found
Median PR merge time: 33 hours

Too few recent issues to measure responsiveness.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.
Authors in the last 90 days are counted from the sampled commits only.
Issues are disabled, so response time is not measured.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 499 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 1
Contributors: 413

Top committers

vinta: 96% of commits
DevVettel: 1% of commits
JinyangWang27: 1% of commits
Goldensloth420: 1% of commits
vikasranax: 0% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Organic, confidence high

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

Bursts

Nov 7, 2014 to Nov 8, 2014: about 54 more stars than usual, peak 51 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Sep 10, 2016 to Sep 12, 2016: about 212 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 3, 2017 to Jan 6, 2017: about 311 more stars than usual, peak 140 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Mar 27, 2017 to Apr 7, 2017: about 925 more stars than usual, peak 199 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 31, 2018 to Feb 1, 2018: about 66 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Feb 23, 2018 to Feb 24, 2018: about 87 more stars than usual, peak 100 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 17, 2019 to Feb 21, 2019: about 1k more stars than usual, peak 342 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 23, 2019 to Aug 29, 2019: about 608 more stars than usual, peak 186 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 20, 2019 to Oct 23, 2019: about 259 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 22, 2019 to Nov 27, 2019: about 281 more stars than usual, peak 182 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 2, 2020 to Jan 4, 2020: about 184 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Oct 27, 2020 to Oct 28, 2020: about 152 more stars than usual, peak 163 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 20, 2020 to Nov 23, 2020: about 339 more stars than usual, peak 151 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Dec 7, 2020 to Dec 17, 2020: about 937 more stars than usual, peak 317 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 29, 2021 to Feb 2, 2021: about 333 more stars than usual, peak 144 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 5, 2021 to May 8, 2021: about 680 more stars than usual, peak 318 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
May 16, 2021 to May 19, 2021: about 550 more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 19, 2021 to Jul 21, 2021: about 204 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 10, 2021 to Oct 30, 2021: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 29, 2021 to Dec 29, 2021: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 209 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Mar 15, 2022 to Mar 15, 2022: about 118 more stars than usual, peak 222 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jul 8, 2022 to Jul 12, 2022: about 359 more stars than usual, peak 232 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 17, 2022 to Aug 19, 2022: about 329 more stars than usual, peak 240 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 7, 2022 to Sep 9, 2022: about 265 more stars than usual, peak 226 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 9, 2022 to Nov 19, 2022: about 565 more stars than usual, peak 170 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 2, 2023 to Jan 5, 2023: about 359 more stars than usual, peak 231 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 20, 2023 to Feb 23, 2023: about 293 more stars than usual, peak 197 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 9, 2023 to Apr 14, 2023: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 431 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 20, 2023 to Aug 25, 2023: about 555 more stars than usual, peak 217 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 11, 2023 to Dec 20, 2023: about 848 more stars than usual, peak 241 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 16, 2024 to Jan 17, 2024: about 138 more stars than usual, peak 218 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 7, 2025 to Jun 7, 2025: about 101 more stars than usual, peak 207 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Oct 15, 2025 to Oct 16, 2025: about 256 more stars than usual, peak 313 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 1, 2026 to Sep 3, 2026: about 222 more stars than usual, peak 306 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

28 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: CC-BY-4.0
A year ago: CC-BY-4.0

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.3 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: vinta/awesome-python

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution
Oct 13, 2026: Caution

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