How Huey is used
Huey joined the catalog on its public numbers (3,089,924 downloads a week on PyPI and 6,054 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 9 public GitHub projects of our scan, 3 of them set up for AI coding agents. The most used alternative in our scan is Celery (36 projects). Projects that use it most often also use Click (100.0%), packaging (100.0%), Pydantic (100.0%).
Huey popularity over time
Gid Score 46: downloads 74, use in agent projects 16, GitHub stars 42, downloads trend 37 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with Huey
| Click | 100.0% of Huey projects · 40.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| packaging | 100.0% of Huey projects · 68.2× more than average |
| Pydantic | 100.0% of Huey projects · 11.6× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 100.0% of Huey projects · 10.9× more than average |
| Uvicorn | 100.0% of Huey projects · 13.1× more than average |
| AnyIO | 88.9% of Huey projects · 60.0× more than average |
Install
| Package | pip install huey |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (8), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | bobmatnyc/claude-mpm, julianghadially/FactChecker, databricks-industry-solutions/supply-chain-stress-test |
Alternatives to Huey
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside Huey are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Celery pypi Distributed task queue for Python executing jobs asynchronously across workers. |
69 | 36 (2.2%) | 11.5M | 29K | BSD-3-Clause |
| arq pypi · new in the catalog Job queue for Python with asyncio and Redis. |
44 | 4 (0.2%) | 1.1M | 3,018 | MIT |
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