charset-normalizer
Detect and normalize character encoding in text with modern alternative to Chardet.
Utilities PyPI MIT
Used in agent projects
158
1.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#11 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
313M
PyPI, last 7 days, charset-normalizer
GitHub stars
801
last push Oct 2, 2026
How charset-normalizer is used
charset-normalizer is a dependency in 158 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (1.2%), #11 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (98.7%), urllib3 (97.5%), AnyIO (84.2%).
Often used with charset-normalizer
| Requests | 98.7% of charset-normalizer projects · 18.6× more than average |
|---|---|
| urllib3 | 97.5% of charset-normalizer projects · 64.1× more than average |
| AnyIO | 84.2% of charset-normalizer projects · 57.5× more than average |
| websockets | 79.1% of charset-normalizer projects · 35.1× more than average |
| attrs | 69.6% of charset-normalizer projects · 69.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list charset-normalizer as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install charset-normalizer |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (152), Next.js (5), Other (1) |
| Example projects | solana-developers/solana-cookbook, henrytirla/Solana-Trading-Bot, twjackysu/TWSEMCPServer, lorenzourera/solana-auto-sell-bot, pipedude/evi-run |
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