5 alternatives to rich
textualize/rich — Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. (57,639 stars, MIT, integration).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 78 licence-cleared components from textualize/rich itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fastmail/squire | 4.7 | MIT | 4,923 |
| 2 | darrenburns/posting | 5.5 | Apache-2.0 | 12,539 |
| 3 | qwertyquerty/pypresence | 4.6 | MIT | 743 |
| 4 | docker/docker-py | 4.8 | Apache-2.0 | 7,224 |
| 5 | shikijs/shiki | 4.6 | MIT | 13,890 |
The alternatives in detail
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The rich text editor for arbitrary HTML.score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 4,923 stars · 23 components · search them
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The modern API client that lives in your terminal.score 5.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 12,539 stars · 180 components · search them
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A complete Discord IPC and Rich Presence wrapper library in Python!score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 743 stars · 7 components · search them
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A Python library for the Docker Engine APIscore 4.8/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 7,224 stars · 58 components · search them
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A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighterscore 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 13,890 stars · 174 components · search them
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