# python-restx/flask-restx

Fork of Flask-RESTPlus: Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask

Repository: https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/flask-restx
Homepage: https://flask-restx.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: python, api, swagger, flask, rest, json, restful, restplus, restx
Last push: 2026-04-14T15:43:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 60/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 77, release rhythm 16, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2428, "days_push": 141, "days_rel": 344, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2235, forks 347 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:29.341420+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: api-framework, web-framework, api-documentation, routing, serialization
- domain: web-development, backend, apis, documentation
- platform: python
- tags: flask, rest, swagger, openapi, restplus-fork, web-server

## Member repositories
- python-restx/flask-restx (main) score 60

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.341420+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 2026-08-30T02:44:20.358060+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/python-restx/flask-restx (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:29.341420+00:00, sha 9d70da9ea5c0)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/flask-restx/json (fetched 2026-08-29T10:25:35.549827+00:00, sha 69f7adc6fd4f)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.