How pydyf is used
pydyf 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 54 projects, and what it is used with below comes from all of them. The most used alternative in our scan is ReportLab (26 projects). Projects that use it most often also use CFFI (100.0%), charset-normalizer (100.0%), cssselect2 (100.0%).
pydyf popularity over time
Gid Score 49: downloads 84, use in agent projects 42, GitHub stars 0, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with pydyf
| CFFI | 100.0% of pydyf projects · 155.2× more than average |
|---|---|
| charset-normalizer | 100.0% of pydyf projects · 92.7× more than average |
| cssselect2 | 100.0% of pydyf projects · 6208.0× more than average |
| fonttools | 100.0% of pydyf projects · 365.2× more than average |
| lxml | 100.0% of pydyf projects · 78.6× more than average |
| NumPy | 100.0% of pydyf projects · 17.1× more than average |
| Pillow | 100.0% of pydyf projects · 26.1× more than average |
From all 54 projects in our scan that use pydyf, including the dependency samples.
How pydyf is funded
Open Collective: CourtBouillon
| Received, last 12 months | $9,942 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | €11,499 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $4,024 |
| Raised since the start | $62,071 · $58,047 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $766 · $863 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -23% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 26 |
Top company backers all time, 25 companies in total
| Spacinov | €14,800 since Jan 2022 |
|---|---|
| Kobalt | €5,563 since Feb 2022 |
| Grip Angebotssoftware | €3,380 since Apr 2021 |
| Simonsoft | €2,160 since Oct 2020 |
| Menutech | €2,040 since Nov 2020 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Oct 2020. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 5 more tools in our catalog: WeasyPrint, cssselect2, Pyphen, tinyhtml5, CairoSVG.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Europe. Source
Ways to fund pydyf
Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | pip install pydyf |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (53), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | assafelovic/gpt-researcher, Paper2Poster/Paper2Poster, AutoLab-SAI-SJTU/AutoPage, GeotrekCE/Geotrek-admin, lamm-mit/HyperGraphReasoning |
Alternatives to pydyf
Tools that do the same job, so a project picks one or the other. Add-ons and libraries used alongside pydyf are not listed here; they are in "Often used with".
| Tool | Gid Score | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ReportLab pypi Python library for generating PDFs and graphics programmatically. |
65 | 26 (1.6%) | 17.8M | — | BSD |
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