Used in agent projects
25
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#90 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
37M
PyPI, last 7 days, chardet
GitHub stars
2,675
last push Aug 30, 2026
How chardet is used
chardet is a dependency in 25 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #90 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (76.0%), NumPy (68.0%), python-dotenv (68.0%).
Often used with chardet
| Requests | 76.0% of chardet projects · 14.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| NumPy | 68.0% of chardet projects · 17.7× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 68.0% of chardet projects · 10.4× more than average |
| Click | 64.0% of chardet projects · 36.4× more than average |
| PyYAML | 64.0% of chardet projects · 21.1× more than average |
| Colorama | 56.0% of chardet projects · 59.8× more than average |
| Pillow | 56.0% of chardet projects · 24.4× more than average |
| psutil | 56.0% of chardet projects · 49.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list chardet as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install chardet |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (23), Next.js (2) |
| Example projects | capture0x/AdStrike, owid/etl, timxx/qgitc, ManojINaik/manimAnimationAgent |
Alternatives to chardet
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| clsx npm Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings. |
2,251 (17.7%) | 126M | 9,847 | MIT |
| date-fns npm Modern JavaScript date utility library with comprehensive formatting functions. |
1,079 (8.5%) | 97.6M | 36.6K | MIT |
| uuid npm Generate RFC9562 compliant UUIDs for unique identifiers in applications. |
454 (3.6%) | 296M | 15.3K | MIT |
| PyYAML pypi YAML parser and emitter for reading and writing YAML configuration files. |
385 (3.0%) | 239M | 2,954 | MIT |
| Lodash npm Modular utility library with methods for common programming tasks and data manipulation. |
269 (2.1%) | 162M | 61.4K | MIT |
| bn.js npm Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript. |
217 (1.7%) | 62.1M | 1,230 | MIT |
| python-dateutil pypi Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation. |
165 (1.3%) | 233M | 2,638 | Dual License |
| yaml npm JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance. |
164 (1.3%) | 179M | 1,693 | ISC |