Is watchfiles safe to use?

watchfiles has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.1.1). DepScope rates its health at 47/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of watchfiles?

The latest version of watchfiles is 1.1.1, released 2025-10-14.

Does watchfiles have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of watchfiles.

Is watchfiles deprecated?

No, watchfiles is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.1.1 (2025-10-14).

What are alternatives to watchfiles?

Popular alternatives to watchfiles in PyPI include: boto3, boto3/, packaging, urllib3/, certifi.

What license does watchfiles use?

watchfiles is licensed under MIT.

watchfiles

pypiv1.1.1

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

License MITpermissive28 versions1 deps

samuelcolvin/watchfiles

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 47/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

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

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