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argparse

npm · v3.0.3 · PSF-2.0

CLI arguments parser. Native port of python's argparse.

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Install

npm install argparse

Adoption

Downloads (30 days)
970.2M
Observeddownloads / 30 days
Popularity
Top 1% on npm
Derived100th percentile within npm
Dependents
3.8K
Observedpackages that depend on it
Maintenance
0.68
DerivedRelease cadence and recency, 0 to 1
Releases per year
2.4
34 versions over its life

Growth by period

Derived by Crest of Tech from two observations of npm’s own figure, a period apart. Nothing is stored or estimated: without an observation near the period’s start, the period is still collecting.

7 days
Collectinghistory
Collecting
30 days
−7.2% · 30d
Derived−75.6M downloads / 30 days, SEP 24 → OCT 24
90 days
+1.6% · 90d
Derived+14.8M downloads / 30 days, JUL 26 → OCT 24
1 year
+76.3% · 1y
Derived+420M downloads / 30 days, OCT 27 → OCT 24

Adoption history

Adoption historydownloads / 30 days · 13 observations

SEP 24, 2026: 1,045,889,758 downloads / 30 daysSEP 25, 2026: 1,047,493,637 downloads / 30 daysSEP 26, 2026: 1,026,946,108 downloads / 30 daysSEP 27, 2026: 1,012,573,370 downloads / 30 daysSEP 28, 2026: 1,045,810,916 downloads / 30 daysSEP 29, 2026: 1,080,309,404 downloads / 30 daysSEP 30, 2026: 1,093,314,197 downloads / 30 daysOCT 1, 2026: 1,101,818,040 downloads / 30 daysOCT 2, 2026: 1,100,921,539 downloads / 30 daysOCT 3, 2026: 1,128,747,652 downloads / 30 daysOCT 4, 2026: 1,113,645,691 downloads / 30 daysOCT 5, 2026: 1,113,645,691 downloads / 30 daysOCT 24, 2026: 970,241,298 downloads / 30 days
Table of observations (13)
Daydownloads / 30 daysDependents
OCT 24, 2026970,241,2983,836
OCT 5, 20261,113,645,691Not observed
OCT 4, 20261,113,645,691Not observed
OCT 3, 20261,128,747,652Not observed
OCT 2, 20261,100,921,539Not observed
OCT 1, 20261,101,818,040Not observed
SEP 30, 20261,093,314,197Not observed
SEP 29, 20261,080,309,404Not observed
SEP 28, 20261,045,810,916Not observed
SEP 27, 20261,012,573,370Not observed
SEP 26, 20261,026,946,108Not observed
SEP 25, 20261,047,493,637Not observed
SEP 24, 20261,045,889,758Not observed

Facts from the registry

Latest version
v3.0.3
34 versions
First published
MAY 16, 2012
Last release
OCT 15, 2026
8d ago
Licence
PSF-2.0

Repository

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nodeca/argparse (GitHub, opens in a new tab)

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Dependencies latest version · v3.0.3

No dependencies are recorded for the latest version.

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