best-of-web-python

This curated list contains 590 awesome open-source projects with a total of 3.6M stars grouped into 26 categories. All projects are ranked by a project-quality score, which is calculated based on various metrics automatically collected from Github and different package managers. If you like to add or update projects, feel free to open an issue, submit a pull request, or directly edit the projects.yaml. Contributions are very welcome!

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Contents

• Web Frameworks 35 projects
• HTTP Clients 19 projects
• Servers 12 projects
• Authorization & Authentication 39 projects
• HTML Processing 10 projects
• URL Utilities 6 projects
• OpenAPI Utilities 23 projects
• GraphQL Utilities 16 projects
• Websocket Utilities 12 projects
• RPC Utilities 5 projects
• Serverless 4 projects
• Content Management Systems 6 projects
• Web Testing 50 projects
• Web Forms 5 projects
• Markdown 12 projects
• Third-party Web APIs 56 projects
• Email 11 projects
• Web Scraping & Crawling 34 projects
• Monitoring 13 projects
• Web UI 12 projects
• Admin UI 13 projects
• API Proxies & Gateways

Explanation

• 🥇🥈🥉  Combined project-quality score
• ⭐️  Star count from GitHub
• 🐣  New project (less than 6 months old)
• 💤  Inactive project (6 months no activity)
• 💀  Dead project (12 months no activity)
• 📈📉  Project is trending up or down
• ➕  Project was recently added
• ❗️  Warning (e.g. missing/risky license)
• 👨‍💻  Contributors count from GitHub
• 🔀  Fork count from GitHub
• 📋  Issue count from GitHub
• ⏱️  Last update timestamp on package manager
• 📥  Download count from package manager
• 📦  Number of dependent projects
•   Flask related project
•   Django related project
•   FastAPI related project
•   Pyramid related project
•   OpenAPI related project
•   GraphQL related project

Web Frameworks

General purpose web frameworks to build web applications and REST APIs.

• GitHub (👨‍💻 900 · 🔀 9.5K · 📦 910K · 📋 3.5K - 0% open · ⏱️ 07.07.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi
  

• PyPi (📥 480M / month · 📦 32K · ⏱️ 01.07.2026):

  pip install fastapi
  

• Conda (📥 5.2M · ⏱️ 02.07.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge fastapi
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 3.5K · 🔀 34K · 📦 2M · ⏱️ 08.07.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/django/django
  

• PyPi (📥 49M / month · 📦 23K · ⏱️ 07.07.2026):

  pip install django
  

• Conda (📥 3.8M · ⏱️ 07.07.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge django
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 860 · 🔀 17K · 📥 13K · 📦 2.8M · 📋 2.8K - 0% open · ⏱️ 31.05.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/pallets/flask
  

• PyPi (📥 190M / month · 📦 19K · ⏱️ 19.02.2026):

  pip install flask
  

• Conda (📥 13M · ⏱️ 19.02.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge flask
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 510 · 🔀 1.8K · 📥 3.8K · 📦 1.7M · 📋 1.3K - 0% open · ⏱️ 05.05.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug
  

• PyPi (📥 240M / month · 📦 5.2K · ⏱️ 02.04.2026):

  pip install werkzeug
  

• Conda (📥 18M · ⏱️ 02.04.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge werkzeug
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 480 · 🔀 5.5K · 📦 700K · 📋 1.9K - 11% open · ⏱️ 08.07.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado
  

• PyPi (📥 120M / month · 📦 4.1K · ⏱️ 08.06.2026):

  pip install tornado
  

• Conda (📥 74M · ⏱️ 09.06.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge tornado
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 330 · 🔀 1.2K · 📦 430K · 📋 770 - 1% open · ⏱️ 04.07.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/encode/starlette
  

• PyPi (📥 520M / month · 📦 6.8K · ⏱️ 12.06.2026):

  pip install starlette
  

• Conda (📥 6.1M · ⏱️ 14.06.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge starlette
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 1.5K · 🔀 7.1K · 📥 79 · 📦 860K · 📋 4K - 1% open · ⏱️ 01.07.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework
  

• PyPi (📥 120K / month · 📦 110 · ⏱️ 20.07.2017):

  pip install django-rest-framework
  

• Conda (📥 1.5M · ⏱️ 25.03.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge djangorestframework
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 240 · 🔀 1K · 📥 13K · 📦 11K · 📋 1.1K - 13% open · ⏱️ 08.07.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/falconry/falcon
  

• PyPi (📥 1.3M / month · 📦 430 · ⏱️ 16.06.2026):

  pip install falcon
  

• Conda (📥 1.1M · ⏱️ 16.06.2026):

  conda install -c conda-forge falcon
  

• GitHub (👨‍💻 240 · 🔀 1.5K · 📥 480 · 📦 37K · 📋 930 - 30% open · ⏱️ 23.03.2026):

  git clone https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle
  

• PyPi (📥 11M / month · 📦 800 · ⏱️ 15.06.2025):

  pip install bottle
  

• Conda (📥 660K · ⏱️ 11.08.2025):

  conda install -c conda-forge bottle