MarkupSafe
Utility for safely escaping and marking HTML/XML strings to prevent injection attacks.
Used in agent projects
91
0.7% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in auth and security libraries
#13 of 47
by use in those projects
Downloads
178M
PyPI, last 7 days, markupsafe
GitHub stars
698
last push Oct 3, 2026
How MarkupSafe is used
MarkupSafe is a dependency in 91 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.7%), #13 of 47 in auth and security libraries. The most used alternative there is NextAuth.js. Projects that use it most often also use Click (91.2%), Requests (91.2%), Jinja2 (87.9%).
Often used with MarkupSafe
| Click | 91.2% of MarkupSafe projects · 51.9× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 91.2% of MarkupSafe projects · 17.2× more than average |
| Jinja2 | 87.9% of MarkupSafe projects · 63.8× more than average |
| urllib3 | 87.9% of MarkupSafe projects · 57.8× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 83.5% of MarkupSafe projects · 67.1× more than average |
| AnyIO | 79.1% of MarkupSafe projects · 54.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list MarkupSafe as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install markupsafe |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (88), Next.js (2), Other (1) |
| Example projects | twjackysu/TWSEMCPServer, pipedude/evi-run, microsoft/edge-ai, mikegianfelice/Hunter, everlastingsong/whirlpool-essentials |
Alternatives to MarkupSafe
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NextAuth.js npm Complete open-source authentication solution designed for Next.js applications. |
266 (2.1%) | 6.7M | 28.4K | ISC |
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| jsonwebtoken npm Create, verify and decode JSON Web Tokens for authentication and secure data transmission. |
241 (1.9%) | 59.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| cryptography pypi Python library providing cryptographic recipes and primitives for secure applications. |
213 (1.7%) | 281M | 7,803 | — |
| jose npm Comprehensive JWT and JWK handling for Node.js and web runtimes. |
141 (1.1%) | 151M | 7,824 | MIT |
| PyJWT pypi Python library for encoding and decoding JSON Web Tokens. |
128 (1.0%) | 154M | 5,714 | — |
| Better Auth npm Comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript with multiple strategies. |
126 (1.0%) | 11.4M | 30.2K | MIT |
| Helmet npm Express middleware that sets HTTP security headers to prevent vulnerabilities. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.2M | 10.7K | MIT |