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53Health
Library PyPI

PyYAML

A full-featured YAML parser and emitter for Python, with C-accelerated bindings

2,950
MIT
Used by 80
51Health
Library npm

superjson

Serialize JavaScript to a superset of JSON that keeps Dates, Maps, Sets, BigInts, and more intact.

5,281
MIT
Used by 32
81Health
Library PyPI

Charset Normalizer

A pure-Python universal charset detector that turns text of unknown encoding into clean Unicode.

796
MIT
Used by 23
68Health
Library PyPI

orjson

A fast, correct, Rust-backed JSON library for Python with native dataclass, datetime, and numpy support

8,234
Apache 2.0
Used by 19
47Health
Library PyPI

tomli

A lil' TOML parser for Python — fast, spec-compliant, and dependency-free.

572
MIT
Used by 19
46Health
Library PyPI

itsdangerous

A small Python toolkit for cryptographically signing data so you can trust it hasn't been tampered with when it comes back from an untrusted client.

3,135
BSD 3
Used by 15
92Health
Library Go

kin-openapi

A Go library for parsing, validating, converting, and working with OpenAPI 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2 documents.

3,297
MIT
Used by 14
40Health
Library PyPI

toml

A pure-Python library for parsing and creating TOML documents, validated against the official TOML test suite.

1,136
MIT
Used by 14
89Health
Library npm

@xmldom/xmldom

A pure JavaScript, W3C-standard DOMParser and XMLSerializer for parsing and building XML/HTML documents

469
MIT
Used by 14
74Health
Library Go

go-toml

The original Go library for loading, querying, and marshaling TOML documents, now superseded by go-toml v2.

1,986
MIT
Used by 12
86Health
Library Cargo

serde_with

Custom de/serialization helpers for Rust's serde, via the with and serde_as annotations

860
Apache 2.0
Used by 10
74Health
Library PyPI

feedparser

Parses RSS, Atom, RDF, CDF, and JSON feeds into one normalized Python dictionary.

2,426
Other
Used by 9
98Health
Library Composer

PhpSpreadsheet

Read, write, and manipulate Excel, CSV, and ODS spreadsheet files in pure PHP with no external office suite required.

13,990
MIT
Used by 8
85Health
Library PyPI

json_repair

Repair malformed JSON from LLMs, APIs, logs, and user input — a drop-in fallback for json.loads().

5,113
MIT
Used by 8
89Health
Library PyPI

msgspec

A fast, zero-cost serialization and validation library for JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML in Python.

4,129
BSD 3
Used by 8
67Health
Library npm

json-2-csv

Converts arrays of JSON documents to RFC 4180 compliant CSV and back, with native support for nested sub-documents.

458
MIT
Used by 8
76Health
Library PyPI

python-zstandard

Python bindings for the Zstandard (zstd) compression library, exposing the full C API through a Pythonic, high-performance interface.

642
BSD 3
Used by 7
50Health
Library PyPI

jsonpath-ng

A standard-compliant JSONPath implementation for Python with arithmetic operators, AST manipulation, and in-place updates.

733
Apache 2.0
Used by 6
84Health
Library PyPI

types-toml

PEP 561 type stubs that add static typing to the Python toml library

5,125
Apache 2.0
Used by 4
71Health
Library PyPI

FlatBuffers

Google's memory-efficient, zero-copy serialization library for cross-language data exchange

26,520
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
73Health
Library PyPI

marshmallow

An ORM/framework-agnostic Python library for converting complex objects to and from native datatypes, with built-in validation.

7,241
MIT
Used by 3
80Health
Library PyPI

ujson

Ultra-fast JSON encoder and decoder for Python, written in C

4,497
BSD 3
Used by 3
94Health
Library PyPI

deltalake

Native Rust-powered Python binding for Delta Lake, giving pandas, Polars, and Arrow workflows ACID table reads and writes without a JVM.

3,321
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
55Health
Library PyPI

dataclasses-json

Encode and decode Python dataclasses to and from JSON with a single decorator or mixin.

1,487
MIT
Used by 3

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