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Update: 2026.02.26
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- Prefect (🥇45 · ⭐ 22K · 📈) - Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building..
Apache-2 - docker (🥈40 · ⭐ 7.2K · 📈) - A Python library for the Docker Engine API.
Apache-2 - plumbum (🥉36 · ⭐ 3K · 📈) - Plumbum: Shell Combinators.
MIT - python-box (🥉27 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📈) - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.
MIT - macropy (🥉23 · ⭐ 3.3K · 💀) - Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more!.
MIT
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- protobuf (🥇52 · ⭐ 71K · 📉) - Protocol Buffers - Googles data interchange format.
BSD-3 - more-itertools (🥈40 · ⭐ 4K · 📉) - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools.
MIT - s3transfer (🥈36 · ⭐ 230 · 📉) - Amazon S3 Transfer Manager for Python.
Apache-2 - SQLAlchemy (🥈35 · ⭐ 12K · 📉) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - pyasn1 (🥉31 · ⭐ 250 · 💀) - Generic ASN.1 library for Python.
BSD-2
Update: 2026.02.19
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- SQLAlchemy (🥇46 · ⭐ 12K · 📈) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - tenacity (🥇41 · ⭐ 8.4K · 📈) - Retrying library for Python.
Apache-2 - mysqlclient (🥈36 · ⭐ 2.5K · 📈) - MySQL/MariaDB connector for Python.
❗️GPL-2.0 - Activeloop (🥈35 · ⭐ 9K · 📈) - Database for AI. Store Vectors, Images, Texts, Videos, etc...
Apache-2 - SDV (🥈33 · ⭐ 3.4K · 📈) - Synthetic data generation for tabular data.
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- Airflow (🥇49 · ⭐ 45K · 📉) - Platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor..
Apache-2 - docker (🥈37 · ⭐ 7.2K · 📉) - A Python library for the Docker Engine API.
Apache-2 - orjson (🥈36 · ⭐ 7.9K · 📉) - Fast, correct Python JSON library supporting dataclasses,..
Apache-2 - keyboard (🥉29 · ⭐ 4K · 💀) - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.
MIT - macropy (🥉20 · ⭐ 3.3K · 💀) - Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more!.
MIT
Update: 2026.02.12
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- rich (🥇47 · ⭐ 55K · 📈) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - polars (🥇46 · ⭐ 37K · 📈) - Extremely fast Query Engine for DataFrames, written in Rust.
MIT - dateparser (🥈39 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📈) - python parser for human readable dates.
BSD-3 - borb (🥉27 · ⭐ 3.6K · 📈) - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF..
❗Unlicensed - coolname (🥉27 · ⭐ 170 · 📈) - Random Name and Slug Generator.
BSD-2
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- greenlet (🥈39 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📉) - Lightweight in-process concurrent programming.
❗Unlicensed - python-prompt-toolkit (🥈36 · ⭐ 10K · 📉) - Library for building powerful interactive command..
BSD-3 - SQLAlchemy (🥈35 · ⭐ 11K · 📉) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - Activeloop (🥈31 · ⭐ 9K · 📉) - Database for AI. Store Vectors, Images, Texts, Videos, etc...
Apache-2 - SDV (🥈31 · ⭐ 3.4K · 📉) - Synthetic data generation for tabular data.
❗Unlicensed
Update: 2026.02.05
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- rich (🥇47 · ⭐ 55K · 📈) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - tenacity (🥈37 · ⭐ 8.3K · 📈) - Retrying library for Python.
Apache-2 - dateparser (🥈37 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📈) - python parser for human readable dates.
BSD-3 - borb (🥉27 · ⭐ 3.6K · 📈) - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF..
❗Unlicensed - coolname (🥉27 · ⭐ 170 · 📈) - Random Name and Slug Generator.
BSD-2
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- greenlet (🥈39 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📉) - Lightweight in-process concurrent programming.
❗Unlicensed - python-prompt-toolkit (🥈37 · ⭐ 10K · 📉) - Library for building powerful interactive command..
BSD-3 - supervisor (🥇37 · ⭐ 9K · 📉) - Supervisor process control system for Unix..
❗️Repoze Public License - hydra (🥈33 · ⭐ 10K · 📉) - Hydra is a framework for elegantly configuring complex applications.
MIT - python-mss (🥉28 · ⭐ 1.2K · 📉) - An ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure..
MIT
Update: 2026.01.22
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- luigi (🥈38 · ⭐ 19K · 📈) - Luigi is a Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of..
Apache-2 - dill (🥈38 · ⭐ 2.4K · 📈) - serialize all of Python.
BSD-3 - pyasn1 (🥉35 · ⭐ 250 · 💀) - Generic ASN.1 library for Python.
BSD-2 - libcloud (🥉31 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📈) - Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences..
Apache-2 - ODMantic (🥉29 · ⭐ 1.2K · 📈) - Sync and Async ODM (Object Document Mapper) for MongoDB based on..
ISC
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- click (🥇47 · ⭐ 17K · 📉) - Python composable command line interface toolkit.
BSD-3 - Datasets (🥇44 · ⭐ 21K · 📉) - The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for AI models with..
Apache-2 - google-cloud-storage (🥇41 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📉) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - anyio (🥇41 · ⭐ 2.4K · 📉) - High level asynchronous concurrency and networking framework that works..
MIT - arrow (🥇40 · ⭐ 9K · 📉) - Better dates & times for Python.
Apache-2
Update: 2026.01.15
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- Datasets (🥇45 · ⭐ 21K · 📈) - The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for AI models with..
Apache-2 - Faker (🥇44 · ⭐ 19K · 📈) - Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
MIT - google-cloud-storage (🥇42 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📈) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - Pygments (🥇42 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📈) - Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python.
BSD-2 - gdown (🥈33 · ⭐ 5K · 📈) - Google Drive Public File Downloader when Curl/Wget Fails.
MIT
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- Airflow (🥇49 · ⭐ 44K · 📉) - Platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor..
Apache-2 - elasticsearch (🥇42 · ⭐ 4.4K · 📉) - Official Python client for Elasticsearch.
Apache-2 - docker (🥈41 · ⭐ 7.2K · 📉) - A Python library for the Docker Engine API.
Apache-2 - netmiko (🥉37 · ⭐ 4.1K · 📉) - Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network..
MIT - numexpr (🥈36 · ⭐ 2.4K · 📉) - Fast numerical array expression evaluator for Python, NumPy, Pandas,..
MIT
Update: 2026.01.08
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- elasticsearch (🥇43 · ⭐ 4.4K · 📈) - Official Python client for Elasticsearch.
Apache-2 - watchdog (🥈39 · ⭐ 7.2K · 📈) - Python library and shell utilities to monitor filesystem events.
Apache-2 - aiofiles (🥈36 · ⭐ 3.2K · 📈) - File support for asyncio.
Apache-2 - dateparser (🥈35 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📈) - python parser for human readable dates.
BSD-3 - python-slugify (🥇35 · ⭐ 1.6K · 📈) - Returns unicode slugs.
MIT
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- SQLAlchemy (🥇46 · ⭐ 11K · 📉) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - rich (🥇44 · ⭐ 55K · 📉) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - Datasets (🥇44 · ⭐ 21K · 📉) - The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for AI models with..
Apache-2 - Faker (🥇43 · ⭐ 19K · 📉) - Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
MIT - Dagster (🥇42 · ⭐ 15K · 📉) - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and..
Apache-2
Update: 2026.01.01
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- SQLAlchemy (🥇47 · ⭐ 11K · 📈) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - peewee (🥇42 · ⭐ 12K · 📈) - a small, expressive orm -- supports postgresql, mysql, sqlite and..
MIT - diagrams (🥈38 · ⭐ 42K · 📈) - Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures.
MIT - Send2Trash (🥉33 · ⭐ 300 · 📈) - Python library to natively send files to Trash (or Recycle bin)..
BSD-3 - glom (🥉30 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📈) - Pythons nested data operator (and CLI), for all your declarative..
BSD-3
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- pydantic (🥇46 · ⭐ 26K · 📉) - Data validation using Python type hints.
MIT - elasticsearch (🥇42 · ⭐ 4.4K · 📉) - Official Python client for Elasticsearch.
Apache-2 - google-cloud-storage (🥇41 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📉) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - Tablib (🥈35 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📉) - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
MIT - zenml (🥈34 · ⭐ 5.1K · 📉) - ZenML : One AI Platform from Pipelines to Agents. https://zenml.io.
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Update: 2025.12.25
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- elasticsearch (🥇43 · ⭐ 4.4K · 📈) - Official Python client for Elasticsearch.
Apache-2 - marshmallow (🥈42 · ⭐ 7.2K · 📈) - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from..
MIT - supervisor (🥇39 · ⭐ 9K · 📈) - Supervisor process control system for Unix..
❗️Repoze Public License - PyYAML (🥇39 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📈) - Canonical source repository for PyYAML.
MIT - s3fs (🥈37 · ⭐ 1K · 📈) - S3 Filesystem.
BSD-3
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- more-itertools (🥇40 · ⭐ 4K · 📉) - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools.
MIT - holidays (🥈37 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📉) - Open World Holidays Framework.
MIT - plumbum (🥉35 · ⭐ 3K · 📉) - Plumbum: Shell Combinators.
MIT - python-slugify (🥈33 · ⭐ 1.6K · 📉) - Returns unicode slugs.
MIT - wcwidth (🥉33 · ⭐ 430 · 📉) - Python library that measures the width of strings in a terminal.
MIT
Update: 2025.12.18
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- h5py (🥈43 · ⭐ 2.2K · 📈) - HDF5 for Python -- The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5..
BSD-3 - dbt (🥈37 · ⭐ 12K · 📈) - dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data..
❗Unlicensed - Motor (🥈35 · ⭐ 2.5K · 📈) - Motor - the async Python driver for MongoDB and Tornado or asyncio.
Apache-2 - pysolr (🥉32 · ⭐ 700 · 📈) - Pysolr Python Solr client.
BSD-3 - catalogue (🥉26 · ⭐ 180 · 💀) - Super lightweight function registries for your library.
MIT
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- google-cloud-storage (🥇42 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📉) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - xmltodict (🥇37 · ⭐ 5.7K · 📉) - Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are..
MIT - pycparser (🥈37 · ⭐ 3.5K · 📉) - Complete C99 parser in pure Python.
BSD-3 - six (🥇37 · ⭐ 1K · 📉) - Python 2 and 3 compatibility library.
MIT - SQLAlchemy (🥉34 · ⭐ 11K · 📉) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT