Package
argparse
CLI arguments parser. Native port of python's argparse.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 197.9m
- +78% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 14 days ago
- v3.0.2
- GitHub stars
- 512
- 77 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 1 / 0
- Contributors
- 25
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 99
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
197,854,236 downloads last week, 954,437,329 in the last month. The 12-month change of +78% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 333 in total
- Latest version
- 3.0.2, 10 Sept 202614 days ago
- First published
- 16 May 2012
- Last push to GitHub
- 10 Sept 202614 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 1
- Open pull requests
- 0
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 99
- Dependents on npm
- 3,829
Major versions
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 14 Jul 2026
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 14 Aug 2020
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 19 Feb 2015
- v0 first release 0.1.0, 16 May 2012
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 3.0.2 | 10 Sept 2026 |
| 3.0.1 | 25 Aug 2026 |
| 3.0.0 | 14 Jul 2026 |
| 2.0.1 | 28 Aug 2020 |
| 2.0.0 | 14 Aug 2020 |
| 1.0.10 | 15 Feb 2018 |
| 1.0.9 | 29 Sept 2016 |
| 1.0.8 | 29 Sept 2016 |
| 1.0.7 | 17 Mar 2016 |
| 1.0.6 | 6 Feb 2016 |
| 1.0.5 | 5 Feb 2016 |
| 1.0.4 | 17 Jan 2016 |
| 1.0.3 | 27 Oct 2015 |
| 1.0.2 | 22 Mar 2015 |
- Module format
- CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- Not declared
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 173 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install argparse- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/argparse@3.0.2/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/argparse@3.0.2/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/argparse@3.0.2
Indexability: Indexed.