# urwid/urwid

Console user interface library for Python (official repo)

Repository: https://github.com/urwid/urwid
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/urwid
Language: Python
License: LGPL-2.1
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-08-25T13:54:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6033, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 8, "gap_med": 7.0, "n_releases_24m": 21}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3016, forks 340 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:37.948013+00:00)

## What it is
Urwid is a console user interface (TUI) library for Python providing widgets, text layout, and multiple event loop integrations for building text-mode applications. It supports UTF-8, CJK encodings, true color, and runs on Unix-like systems with partial Windows 10+ support.

## Use cases
- build a terminal user interface in python
- create interactive console apps with widgets
- make a tui file manager or dashboard
- handle keyboard and mouse input in a terminal app
- build a fullscreen text-mode application with asyncio
- render colored text and lists in the terminal

## When to choose
- you need a mature, feature-rich TUI library for Python on Linux/macOS
- you want flexible event loop choices like asyncio, trio, or Twisted
- you need Unicode, CJK, and true-color terminal support

## When to avoid
- you need full Windows support or web-based UIs
- you are building a graphical desktop application
- you prefer a simpler immediate-mode TUI approach

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: ui-components, terminal-ui, gui
- domain: developer-tools, cross-platform
- platform: windows, python, cli
- tags: tui, curses, console-ui, widgets, event-loop, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- urwid/urwid (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:37.948013+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 2026-08-30T07:30:04.454336+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/urwid/urwid (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:37.948013+00:00, sha 5fcf853255a6)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.