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humanfriendly

Format data and output for human readability in terminal applications.

Utilities PyPI MIT

Used in agent projects
5
0.3% of 1,622 Python repos built with AI coding agents; 334 counting our dependency samples
Gid Score
65 /100
#475 of 3,794 tools, #61 in utilities · ranking
Rank in utilities
#161 of 361
by use in those projects
Downloads
11.1M
PyPI, last 7 days, humanfriendly
GitHub stars
—
no public repo found

How humanfriendly is used

humanfriendly is a dependency in 5 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 334 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is Colorama (57 projects). Projects that use it most often also use coloredlogs (99.1%), NumPy (98.8%), attrs (97.6%).

humanfriendly popularity over time

Top tools by Gid Score

humanfriendly: downloads per weekPyPI, humanfriendly 10,968,135

Gid Score 65: downloads 86, use in agent projects 68, GitHub stars n/a, downloads trend 50 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.

Often used with humanfriendly

coloredlogs99.1% of humanfriendly projects · 1025.4× more than average
NumPy98.8% of humanfriendly projects · 16.9× more than average
attrs97.6% of humanfriendly projects · 140.9× more than average
packaging97.6% of humanfriendly projects · 66.6× more than average
Protocol Buffers97.0% of humanfriendly projects · 133.8× more than average
Click94.3% of humanfriendly projects · 37.8× more than average
aiohttp93.1% of humanfriendly projects · 45.2× more than average

From all 334 projects in our scan that use humanfriendly, including the dependency samples.

Install

Packagepip install humanfriendly
Main stacksPython (332), Next.js (2)
Example projectsPaper2Poster/Paper2Poster, apconw/Aix-DB, Decade-qiu/CookHero, JasonHonKL/spy-search, YuhangChen1/Paper2All

Alternatives to humanfriendly

All utilities

Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside humanfriendly are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".

Tool Gid Score Used in agent projectsDownloads / wk GitHub starsLicense
Colorama pypi
Cross-platform library for rendering colored terminal text in Python applications.
72 57 (3.5%) 64.8M 3,798 BSD

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