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python-restx/flask-restx

Fork of Flask-RESTPlus: Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/python-restx/flask-restx · homepage · Python · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

60/100

  • Activity 77
  • Release rhythm 16
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 2428
  • days_rel: 344
  • days_push: 141
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

2235 stars · 347 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Flask-RESTX is a community-maintained fork of Flask-RESTPlus, a Flask extension for quickly building REST APIs with minimal setup. It provides decorators and tools for describing endpoints and auto-generating Swagger/OpenAPI documentation.

Use cases

  • build rest apis with flask
  • auto-generate swagger documentation for flask endpoints
  • migrate from flask-restplus to a maintained fork
  • add request parsing and marshalling to flask api
  • serve openapi spec from a flask app

When to choose

  • you already use Flask and want structured, documented REST APIs
  • you need Swagger/OpenAPI docs generated from your code
  • you want a maintained replacement for Flask-RESTPlus

When to avoid

  • you are starting a new API project without Flask (consider FastAPI)
  • you need async-first request handling
  • you want a framework-agnostic API toolkit

Facets

framework · maturity active

api-framework web-framework api-documentation routing serialization web-development backend apis documentation python flask rest swagger openapi restplus-fork web-server

2 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
python-restx/flask-restxmain60

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