Textualize/rich

Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/Textualize/rich · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

88/100

Activity 89
Release rhythm 79
Longevity 100

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

gap_med: 18.0
age_days: 2488
days_rel: 143
days_push: 71
n_releases_24m: 15

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

57252 stars · 2309 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Rich is a Python library for rendering rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. It provides an easy API for colored output, tables, progress bars, markdown, syntax-highlighted code, and enhanced tracebacks.

Use cases

add colors and styles to terminal output in Python
print pretty tables in the console
show progress bars for long-running tasks
render markdown in the terminal
syntax highlight source code in CLI output
display readable formatted tracebacks for exceptions
pretty-print JSON and Python data structures in the REPL

When to choose

you want polished, colorful terminal output from a Python CLI or script
you need tables, progress bars, or markdown rendering in the terminal
you want better exception tracebacks and pretty printing in Python

When to avoid

you need a full interactive TUI application (use Textual instead)
your project is not in Python
you only need simple ANSI colors with zero dependencies

Facets

library · maturity stable

terminal-ui developer-tools logging markdown cli developer-tools cross-platform python windows cross-platform rich-text syntax-highlighting progress-bar tables tracebacks ansi-colors emoji tui command-line linux macos

3 sources

readme: https://github.com/Textualize/rich · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1072644e0820
homepage: https://rich.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ · fetched 2026-08-28 · f097bed02429
registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/rich/json · fetched 2026-08-28 · fdf626762778

Member repositories

Repository	Role	Health v2
Textualize/rich	main	88

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