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Agents tracked: 440 Downloads (7d): 202M down 19.5% GitHub stars: 10.4M Releases (7d): 607 Agent status: all upSince last limit reset: Claude 28d · Codex 0d Updated Oct 21, 2026

ConfigObj

Reads, writes and validates INI-style config files in Python.

Dev workflow and config PyPI BSD

Used in agent projects
1
0.1% of 1,622 Python repos built with AI coding agents; 24 counting our dependency samples
Gid Score
38 /100
#2818 of 3,794 tools, #202 in dev workflow and config · ranking
Rank in dev workflow and config
#211 of 259
by use in those projects
Downloads
1.2M
PyPI, last 7 days, configobj
GitHub stars
337
91 forks · last push Oct 17, 2026

How ConfigObj is used

ConfigObj is a dependency in 1 of the 6,208 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned, too few to describe it from them alone. Our scan also samples projects by dependency (Solana 2,661, Ethereum and EVM 1,496, 3D and games 2,818, agent frameworks and SDKs 10,983); counting those, it appears in 24 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. Projects that use it most often also use Click (100.0%), NumPy (91.7%), Pillow (91.7%).

ConfigObj popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

ConfigObj: downloads per weekPyPI, configobj 1,178,378
ConfigObj: GitHub starsDiffSK/configobj 337

Gid Score 38: downloads 66, use in agent projects 30, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 48 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with ConfigObj

Click100.0% of ConfigObj projects · 40.1× more than average
NumPy91.7% of ConfigObj projects · 15.7× more than average
Pillow91.7% of ConfigObj projects · 23.9× more than average
cryptography87.5% of ConfigObj projects · 37.2× more than average
MarkupSafe87.5% of ConfigObj projects · 118.1× more than average
attrs83.3% of ConfigObj projects · 120.3× more than average
distro83.3% of ConfigObj projects · 143.7× more than average
packaging83.3% of ConfigObj projects · 56.8× more than average

From all 24 projects in our scan that use ConfigObj, including the dependency samples.

Install

Packagepip install configobj
Main stacksPython (24)
Example projectsBlacksujit/100X-Engineers-GenAI-Hackathon-Submission, linktianx/RSRD_BWAS, DanielDiCapua/sopy_fem

Alternatives to ConfigObj

All dev workflow and config

In our scan, none of the most used tools in Dev workflow and config does the same job as ConfigObj: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.

More in Dev workflow and config: dotenv Husky python-dotenv lint-staged concurrently Rich Pydantic Settings cross-env

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