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Agents tracked: 378 Downloads (7d): 244M down 5.7% GitHub stars: 8.4M VS Code installs: 151M Releases (7d): 407 Agent status: 1 with issues Updated Oct 10, 2026

yarl

URL parsing and manipulation library for Python.

Utilities PyPI Apache-2.0

Used in agent projects
83
0.7% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in utilities
#30 of 109
by use in those projects
Downloads
116M
PyPI, last 7 days, yarl
GitHub stars
1,500
last push Oct 9, 2026

How yarl is used

yarl is a dependency in 83 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.7%), #30 of 109 in utilities. The most used alternative there is clsx. Projects that use it most often also use aiohttp (98.8%), attrs (97.6%), Requests (91.6%).

Often used with yarl

aiohttp98.8% of yarl projects · 42.5× more than average
attrs97.6% of yarl projects · 96.8× more than average
Requests91.6% of yarl projects · 17.2× more than average
charset-normalizer90.4% of yarl projects · 72.6× more than average

By coding agent

GitHub Copilot0.4% of projects set up for it
Claude Code0.3% of projects set up for it
Cursor0.4% of projects set up for it

Share of public repos configured for each agent that list yarl as a dependency.

Install

Packagepip install yarl
Main stacksPython (79), Next.js (3), Other (1)
Example projectspipedude/evi-run, microsoft/edge-ai, leionion/solana-bot-bump, siiway/NextBridge, fireblocks/fireblocks-key-recovery-tool

Alternatives to yarl

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Tool Used in agent projectsDownloads / wk GitHub starsLicense
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Tiny utility for conditionally constructing className strings.
2,251 (17.7%) 126M 9,847 MIT
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PyYAML pypi
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385 (3.0%) 239M 2,954 MIT
Lodash npm
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269 (2.1%) 162M 61.4K MIT
bn.js npm
Big number library for handling arbitrary-precision integers in JavaScript.
217 (1.7%) 62.1M 1,230 MIT
python-dateutil pypi
Extensions to Python's datetime module for advanced date and time manipulation.
165 (1.3%) 233M 2,638 Dual License
yaml npm
JavaScript YAML parser and stringifier with full spec compliance.
164 (1.3%) 179M 1,693 ISC
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