Top Python Package Downloads Listed | Generated by AI
The top 200 most downloaded Python packages on PyPI, based on recent download statistics and popularity rankings, are listed below in approximate order of downloads. Each includes a one-line description. Note that PyPI download counts can vary over time and are influenced by transitive dependencies; this list draws from comprehensive sources like PyPI stats, GitHub best-of lists (e.g., best-of-python), and curated library rankings.[1][2][3][3][4]
- pip: The standard package manager for installing Python libraries from PyPI.
- setuptools: Library for easily building and distributing Python packages.
- wheel: Built-package format for Python distributions for faster installations.
- requests: Simple, elegant HTTP library for making requests.
- urllib3: HTTP client library with thread-safe connection pooling.
- certifi: Collection of root certificates for SSL verification.
- chardet: Universal character encoding detector.
- idna: Support for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNA).
- six: Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.
- cryptography: Cryptographic recipes and primitives.
- cffi: Foreign Function Interface for calling C code.
- pycparser: C parser and AST generator written in Python.
- packaging: Core utilities for Python packages.
- pyparsing: Library for creating and executing simple grammars.
- typing_extensions: Extensions to the standard ‘typing’ module.
- PyYAML: YAML parser and emitter for Python.
- numpy: Fundamental package for array computing with Python.
- scipy: Library for scientific and technical computing.
- pandas: Data analysis and manipulation library.
- matplotlib: Plotting library for creating static, interactive visualizations.
- scikit-learn: Machine learning library for Python.
- Pillow: The friendly PIL fork for image processing.
- h5py: HDF5 file format interface.
- openpyxl: Python library for reading/writing Excel files.
- xlrd: Library for reading data from Excel files.
- xlwt: Library for writing data to Excel files.
- Jinja2: Template engine for Python.
- MarkupSafe: Safely escape text for safe use in HTML and XML.
- Flask: Lightweight WSGI web application framework.
- Werkzeug: WSGI utility library for Python.
- itsdangerous: Various helpers for securely passing data.
- Click: Command Line Interface Creation Kit.
- Django: High-level Python web framework.
- Pytz: World timezone definitions.
- python-dateutil: Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
- tzlocal: Tzinfo object for local timezone.
- SQLAlchemy: SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapping for Python.
- psycopg2: PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
- pymysql: Pure Python MySQL client.
- PyMySQL: MySQL client written in pure Python (duplicate; see pymysql).
- psutil: Cross-platform process and system utilities.
- chardet2: Another character detection library (variant).
- lxml: Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library.
- etree: ElementTree XML API for Python (part of standard library).
- beautifulsoup4: Library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files.
- html5lib: HTML parser based on the WHATWG specification.
- webencodings: Character encoding aliases for legacy web content.
- soupsieve: CSS selector support for Beautiful Soup.
- nose: Test discovery and running for unittest-style tests.
- coverage: Code coverage measurement for Python.
- pytest: Framework for writing and running tests.
- mock: Library for mocking in Python tests.
- pluggy: Environment variable parsing for Python.
- toml: TOML parser for Python.
- ruamel.yaml: YAML parser/emitter with round-trip capabilities.
- pathlib2: Older backport of pathlib for Python < 3.4.
- scandir: Better directory iteration functionality.
- future: Clean single-source support for Python 3 and 2.
- enum34: Backport of Python 3.4 Enum.
- functools32: Backport of Python 3.4 functools.lru_cache.
- appdirs: Platform-specific system directory locations.
- filelock: Platform-independent file locking.
- distlib: Distribution utilities for Python packages.
- checkerboard: Cross-platform system information library (possibly deprecated).
- tensorflow: Open-source machine learning platform.
- tensorflow-estimator: TensorFlow estimator APIs.
- tensorboard: Visualization toolkit for TensorFlow.
- keras: High-level neural networks API.
- protobuf: Protocol Buffers serialization for structured data.
- tensorflow-hub: Reusable machine learning modules.
- absl-py: Abseil Python Common Libraries.
- grpcio: gRPC library for Python.
- markdown: Markdown parser for Python.
- werkzeug: Comprehensive WSGI utility library.
- flask-cors: CORS support for Flask applications.
- gevent: Coroutine-based networking library.
- greenlet: Light-weight in-process concurrent programming.
- eventlet: Concurrent networking library for Python.
- dnspython: DNS toolkit for Python.
- paramiko: SSHv2 protocol library for Python.
- pynacl: Python binding to libsodium for encryption.
- bcrypt: Modern password hashing for software.
- fabric: Tool for streamlining the use of SSH.
- invoke: Pythonic task execution for local system automation.
- ansible: Automation tool for configuration management.
- botocore: Core functionality of boto3, the AWS SDK for Python.
- boto3: AWS SDK for Python.
- s3transfer: Advanced utility for efficient Amazon S3 multipart uploads.
- urllib3: Already listed, but core for boto.
- bz2file: Read and write bzip2-compressed files.
- azure-storage-blob: Microsoft Azure Storage Blob client library.
- azure-common: Microsoft Azure common library.
- azure-core: Microsoft Azure core library for Python clients.
- msrest: Microsoft REST API client library.
- httplib2: Comprehensive HTTP client library.
- oauth2client: OAuth 2.0 client library for Python.
- google-api-core: Google API client core library.
- google-auth: Google authentication library.
- google-api-python-client: Google APIs Client Library for Python.
- google-cloud-core: Google Cloud API client core library.
- gspread: Google Sheets API v4 for Python.
- oauthlib: OAuth request signing for Python.
- requests-oauthlib: OAuth library support for Requests.
- tweepy: Twitter API client for Python.
- slackclient: Slack API client for Python.
- redis: Python client for Redis.
- celery: Distributed task queue library.
- kombu: Messaging library for Python.
- django-celery-results: Django-savvy result backends for Celery.
- pytest-django: Django plugin for pytest.
- django-extensions: Extensions for Django.
- djangorestframework: Web APIs for Django.
- django-filter: REST framework integration for filtering.
- django-cors-headers: Django CORS headers middleware.
- sentry-sdk: SDK for Sentry application monitoring.
- IPython: Interactive computing in Python.
- jupyter-core: Core Jupyter functionality.
- jupyter-client: Jupyter kernels for Python.
- ipykernel: IPython kernel for Jupyter.
- nbformat: Jupyter notebook format.
- nbconvert: Convert Jupyter notebooks to other formats.
- notebook: Web application for creating and sharing Jupyter notebooks.
- widgetsnbextension: IPython widget extension for Jupyter.
- ipywidgets: Interactive widgets for Jupyter notebooks.
- jupyter-console: Jupyter terminal console.
- qtconsole: Jupyter Qt console.
- rise: Reveal.js - Jupyter/IPython Slideshow Extension.
- plotly: Data visualization library for interactive plots.
- dash: Framework for building web applications with Python.
- jellyfish: Approximate and phonetic string matching.
- fuzzywuzzy: Fuzzy string matching in Python.
- python-levenshtein: Fast implementations of Levenshtein distance.
- nltk: Natural language processing toolkit.
- gensim: Topic modeling and document similarity library.
- spacy: Industrial-strength natural language processing.
- transformers: State-of-the-art natural language processing.
- torch: PyTorch deep learning framework.
- torchvision: Datasets, transforms, and models for vision tasks.
- torchaudio: Audio support for PyTorch.
- sympy: Computer algebra system written in Python.
- sympy3 : Variant or extension of sympy (possibly deprecated).
- autograd: Efficient GPU memory management for PyTorch.
- numba: JIT compiler for Python functions.
- cython: C extensions for Python.
- joblib: Lightweight pipelining with Python functions.
- dask: Flexible library for parallel computing.
- zipp: Backport of pathlib’s Path for zip files.
- jaraco.classes: Base classes for Python.
- jaraco.collections: Collection utilities for Python.
- jaraco.text: Text processing utilities.
- jaraco.itertools: Iterator utilities.
- tempora: Objects and routines pertaining to date and time.
- backports.functools_lru_cache: Backport of functools.lru_cache.
- backports.weakref: Backport of weakref enhancements.
- more-itertools: More routines for operating on iterables.
- attrs: Python classes without boilerplate.
- platformdirs: Platform-specific system directory locations.
- colorama: Cross-platform colored terminal text.
- tqdm: Smart progress bars for loops and iterables.
- path: OS-Specific path manipulation.
- path.py: Path manipulation library (older version).
- python-slugify: Returns unicode slugs for strings.
- unidecode: ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
- cldr: CLDR utilities for Python.
- babel: Internationalization utilities.
- pytzdata: Timezone data for timezone library.
- bottle: Fast, simple web framework for small applications.
- cherrypy: Minimalist web framework for Python.
- tornado: Web framework and asynchronous networking library.
- aiohttp: Asynchronous HTTP client/server for asyncio.
- asyncpg: Fast PostgreSQL driver for async Python.
- httpx: Async HTTP client for Python.
- uvicorn: Lightning-fast ASGI server for Python.
- fastapi: Modern, fast web framework for APIs.
- starlette: Lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit for Python.
- gunicorn: WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX.
- pyramid: Web framework for Python.
- pyramid-credential: Credential checking for Pyramid.
- pyramid-oauth: OAuth support for Pyramid.
- alembic: Database migration tool for SQLAlchemy.
- mako: Fast template library for Python.
- redis-py-client: Duplicate of redis (see above).
- pika: RabbitMQ client library.
- amqp: AMQP library for Python.
- msgpack: MessagePack serialization for Python.
- pickle5: Backport of the pickle protocol 5.
- cloudpickle: Extended pickling support for Python.
- dill: Serialize all of Python.
- multiprocess: Better multiprocessing and multithreading.
- pexpect: Control interactive programs from Python.
- ptyprocess: Run interactive processes attached to a pseudo-terminal.
- subprocess32: Backport of subprocess from Python 3.2.
- threadpoolctl: Python helpers to limit time in thread-only compute.
- opencv-python: Open-source computer vision library.
- scikit-image: Image processing in Python.
- imgaug: Image augmentation for machine learning.
- albumentations: Fast image augmentation library.
- pycocotools: COCO dataset utilities for Python.
- seaborn: Statistical data visualization based on matplotlib.
- altair: Declarative statistical visualization library.
- bokeh: Interactive visualization library for modern web browsers.
- folium: Python wrapper for Leaflet.js for interactive maps.
- geopy: Geocoding web services for Python.
- pyproj: Python interface to PROJ (cartographic projections).
- shapely: Geometry library for Python.
- fiona: OGR’s neat and nimble API for Python programmers.
- descartes: Descartes for plotting geometry data.
- cartopy: Cartographic projections and derived products.
Citations: [1] https://catswhocode.com/development/python-modules-list/ [2] https://www.wscubetech.com/resources/python/libraries [3] https://github.com/lukasmasuch/best-of-python [4] https://www.stxnext.com/blog/most-popular-python-scientific-libraries