sse-starlette
Server-sent events support for Starlette web framework.
Used in agent projects
43
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in http servers and apis
#20 of 30
by use in those projects
Downloads
61.5M
PyPI, last 7 days, sse-starlette
GitHub stars
855
last push Oct 7, 2026
How sse-starlette is used
sse-starlette is a dependency in 43 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #20 of 30 in http servers and apis. The most used alternative there is Express. Projects that use it most often also use Uvicorn (100.0%), Pydantic (90.7%), Model Context Protocol SDK (Python) (86.0%).
Often used with sse-starlette
| Uvicorn | 100.0% of sse-starlette projects · 23.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Pydantic | 90.7% of sse-starlette projects · 17.7× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (Python) | 86.0% of sse-starlette projects · 22.6× more than average |
| FastAPI | 72.1% of sse-starlette projects · 17.0× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 72.1% of sse-starlette projects · 11.1× more than average |
| Starlette | 69.8% of sse-starlette projects · 85.2× more than average |
| python-multipart | 67.4% of sse-starlette projects · 39.5× more than average |
| Click | 62.8% of sse-starlette projects · 35.8× more than average |
By coding agent
| GitHub Copilot | 0.9% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list sse-starlette as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install sse-starlette |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (42), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | dramaclaw/dramaclaw, twjackysu/TWSEMCPServer, pipedude/evi-run, luminarylane/fal-mcp-server, DelineaXPM/delinea-mcp |
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