# DmytroLitvinov/awesome-flake8-extensions

:octocat: A curated awesome list of flake8 extensions. Feel free to contribute! :mortar_board:

Repository: https://github.com/DmytroLitvinov/awesome-flake8-extensions
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/awesome-flake8-extensions
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: awesome, flake8, flake8-extensions, collections, awesome-list, flake8-plugins, python, hacktoberfest, hacktoberfest-accepted, code-quality
Last push: 2026-07-21T07:29:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 93, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2855, "days_push": 43, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1278, forks 52 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:13.453093+00:00)

## What it is
A curated awesome list of flake8 extensions for Python code linting, organized by category such as bug detection, clean code, docstrings, and type annotations. It serves as a discovery catalog linking to community-maintained flake8 plugins rather than being a tool itself.

## Use cases
- find flake8 plugins for python linting
- discover extensions to enforce python code quality
- find a flake8 plugin to detect mutable default arguments
- look up linter extensions for docstring and import checks
- compare strict python style guide plugins
- find flake8 extensions for type annotation checks

## When to choose
- you already use flake8 and want to extend it with plugins
- you need a categorized overview of the flake8 plugin ecosystem
- you are evaluating which linting extensions to add to a python project

## When to avoid
- you need an actual linting tool rather than a list of links
- you use a linter other than flake8 such as ruff or pylint
- you need guaranteed up-to-date plugin maintenance status

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: linter, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, awesome-lists
- platform: python, cli
- tags: awesome-list, flake8, flake8-extensions, code-quality, python-linting, curated-list, python

## Member repositories
- DmytroLitvinov/awesome-flake8-extensions (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.453093+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:02:43.594117+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/DmytroLitvinov/awesome-flake8-extensions (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:13.453093+00:00, sha 00957bcfd78a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.