Is watchfiles safe to use?

watchfiles has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.2.0). DepScope rates its health at 82/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of watchfiles?

The latest version of watchfiles is 1.2.0, released 2026-05-18.

Does watchfiles have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of watchfiles.

Is watchfiles deprecated?

No, watchfiles is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.2.0 (2026-05-18).

What are alternatives to watchfiles?

Popular alternatives to watchfiles in PyPI include: python-dateutil, cffi, click, fsspec, h11.

What license does watchfiles use?

watchfiles is licensed under MIT.

watchfiles

pypiv1.2.0

Simple, modern and high performance file watching and code reload in python.

License MITpermissive29 versions1 deps75,672,001 weekly dl

samuelcolvin/watchfiles

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 82/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

5/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

5

Primary author dominance

50%

GitHub stars

2,463

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.52high

Download trend

stable(0%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (1)

anyio

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