Is watchfiles safe to use?

watchfiles has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.2.0). DepScope rates its health at 67/100 (moderate 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: boto3, packaging, certifi, urllib3, requests.

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 deps

samuelcolvin/watchfiles

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (67/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (67/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

5/15

community

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

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/watchfiles

watchfiles

pypiv1.2.0

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

License MITpermissive29 versions1 deps

samuelcolvin/watchfiles

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (67/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (67/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

5/15

community

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

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/watchfiles