Awesome Python Applications

Case studies in successfully shipping Python software

As developers, we spend our days with code. The site you're reading this on is mostly modules, packages, libraries, frameworks, and the like. But users see applications.

When building our own applications, open-source Python applications are a gold mine of practical patterns that we know work together. A production application is worth a thousand blog posts and Stack Overflow answers.

This document is an always-growing list of 388 open-source Python applications arranged by topic, with links to repositories, docs, and more, generated from structured data using apatite. If you have one to add or find some information missing, please let us know!

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Contents

1. Internet (33)
2. Audio (17)
3. Video (7)
4. Graphics (20)
5. Games (10)
6. Productivity (24)
7. Organization (39)
8. Communication (33)
9. Education (8)
10. Science (22)
11. CMS (11)
12. ERP (5)
13. Static Site (9)
14. Dev (167)
    1. SCM (17)
    2. Code Review (4)
    3. Storage (16)
    4. Ops (25)
    5. Security (24)
    6. Docs (7)
    7. Editor (12)
    8. Package Managers (10)
    9. Package Repositories (5)
    10. Build (13)
    11. Shell (3)
    12. Other Dev projects (32)
15. Misc (12)

Internet

1. ArchiveBox - (Repo, Home, Docs) Self-hosted web archive, for creating local, browsable backups of content from the web. Imports HTML, JS, PDFs, video, subtitles, git repositories, and more, from Pocket, Pinboard, browser history, etc. (organization, linux, windows, docker)
2. archivematica - (Repo, Home, Docs) Digital preservation system designed to maintain standards-based, long-term access to collections of digital objects, targeted at archivists and librarians. (organization, server)
3. Canto - (Repo, WP) RSS daemon and curses-based client. (linux, tui)
4. CTFd - (Repo, Home, Docs) CTFd is a Capture The Flag framework focusing on ease of use and customizability. It comes with everything you need to run a CTF and it's easy to customize with plugins and themes. (server)
5. Deluge - (Repo, Home, WP, Fund) Popular, lightweight, cross-platform BitTorrent client. (linux, windows, mac, server, gtk)
6. Elixire - (Repo, Home, Docs) Featureful file host and link shortener with API and support for multiple vanity urls. (server)
7. FlaskBB - (Repo, Home, Demo, Docs) A classic web forum application (bulletin board) with a modern look. (server)
8. gPodder - (Repo, Home) Simple, mature media aggregator and podcast client. (linux, windows, mac, gtk)
9. hosts - (Repo) Command-line application which merges reputable hosts files with deduplication for the purpose of blocking undesirable websites via DNS blackhole. (security, linux, windows, mac)
10. httpie - (Repo, Home, PyPI) Command-line HTTP client with JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, and more. (dev, linux, windows, mac)
11. Isso - (Repo, Home) Lightweight commenting server, designed as a drop-in replacement for Disqus. (server)
12. KindleEar - (Repo, Docs) Web application to automatically aggregate RSS into periodical mobi/epub files with images and send it to your kindle or your email. (server)
13. Mylar - (Repo) A web-based automated comic book downloader (cbr/cbz) for use with SABnzbd, NZBGet, and torrents. (graphics, linux)
14. Neubot - (Repo, Home) Lightweight agent which collects data for net-neutrality research. (linux, windows, mac)
15. NewsBlur - (Repo, Home) Web-based personal news reader. (server, django)
16. Newspipe - (Repo, Home, Demo, gh, Docs) Web-based news aggregator and reader. (server)
17. nsupdate.info - (Repo, PyPI, Docs) Featureful dynamic DNS service, using the Dynamic DNS UPDATE protocol (RFC 2136) to update BIND and other major nameservers. (ops, server)
18. Nyaa - (Repo) Bittorrent tracker software built for anime site nyaa.si. (server)
19. Pi-Hole - (Repo, Home, WP) Linux network-level advertisement and internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole, and (optionally) a DHCP server, intended for use on a private network. (linux, server)
20. Planet - (Repo, Home, WP) RSS and Atom feed aggregator, designed to collect posts from the weblogs of members of an Internet community and display them on a single page. Used to power Planet Python and many more. (server)
21. Pol - (Repo, Home) Web application which allows users to subscribe to changes on a web site via an autogenerated RSS feed. (server)
22. PyLoad - (Repo, Home) Download manager with a web interface and API. (linux, windows, mac)
23. Qute Browser - (Repo, Home) Keyboard-driven, minimal, vim-like browser based on PyQt5. (linux, windows, mac, qt5)
24. Reddit - (Repo, Home) Social news forum with voting, commenting, karma, and more. (Archival repo from 2017.) (server)
25. SABnzbd - (Repo, Home, Docs) Simple, cross-platform newsreader for downloading from Usenet. Supports many integrations and 16 languages. (linux, windows, mac, server)
26. Searx - (Repo, Docs) Self-hosted metasearch engine, aggregating results from more than 70 services while avoiding tracking and profiling. (security, server, flask)
27. speedtest-cli - (Repo) Command-line interface for testing Internet bandwidth using speedtest.net. (console)
28. streamlink - (Repo, Home, PyPI) Command-line utility that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice. (linux, windows, mac)
29. syncserver - (Repo, Docs) All-in-one package for running a self-hosted Mozilla Firefox Sync server. (server)
30. Tribler - (Repo, Home, WP) Privacy enhanced BitTorrent client with P2P content discovery. (linux, windows, mac, qt5)
31. You-Get - (Repo, Home) Command-line program to browserlessly scrape and stream video, audio, and images from web sites. (linux, windows, mac)
32. youtube-dl - (Repo, Home, PyPI) Command-line program to browserlessly archive video and audio from YouTube and hundreds of other sites. (linux, windows, mac)
33. ZeroNet - (Repo, Home, WP, Docs) Open, free, and uncensorable websites, using Bitcoin cryptography and BitTorrent network. (linux, windows, mac)

Audio

1. Beets - (Repo, Home, PyPI) Feature-rich command-line music library manager with web UI, duplicate detection, transcoding, and tagging support, integrating with MusicBrainz, Discogs, and more. (linux, windows, mac)
2. Exaile - (Repo, WP) Cross-platform audio player, tag editor, and library organizer. (linux, windows, mac, gtk)
3. Frescobaldi - (Repo, WP) An editor for LilyPond music files. (linux, windows, mac, qt) badlink for testing