python-restx/flask-restx
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Fork of Flask-RESTPlus: Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask observed · 2026-09-26
Health v2 · maintenance only
54/100
- Activity 69
- Release rhythm 9
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_license
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 2476
- days_rel: 392
- days_push: 189
- n_releases_24m: 1
Adoption not part of the score
2231 stars · 347 forks observed · 2026-09-26
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
- readme: https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx · fetched 2026-09-26 · 9d70da9ea5c0
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/flask-restx/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · 69f7adc6fd4f
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| python-restx/flask-restx | main | 54 |
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