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    urfave/cli

    #181 this week

    A declarative, simple, fast, and fun package for building command line tools in Go

    cli
    command-line
    go
    golang-library
    json
    toml
    Go
    MIT
    24.3K stars
    1.8K forks
    24.3K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 13, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #181 of 1,950 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 9%).

    4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 329 contributors on GitHub.

    Gained 42% fewer stars in the last 90 days than in the 90 days before.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a declarative and fast Go package for building command line tools with support for commands, subcommands, and flexible input flags.
    • Offers zero dependencies outside the Go standard library, ensuring lightweight and efficient CLI application development.
    • Use for creating complex CLI applications with nested commands and dynamic shell completions in Go projects.
    • Use for generating documentation in man and Markdown formats to maintain clear CLI tool references.
    • Use for building CLI tools that require input configuration from environment variables, plain text, or structured files like JSON, TOML, and YAML.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

    No watch-outs from GStars' checks.

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    From the README

    See the hosted documentation website at https://cli.urfave.org. Contents of this website are built from the ./docs directory.

    Excerpt from the urfave/cli README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Oct 2: +1Oct 3: +0Oct 4: +4Oct 5: +5Oct 6: +3Oct 7: +1Oct 8: -1Oct 9: -3Oct 10: +3Oct 11: +1Oct 12: +0Oct 13: +1Oct 14: +2

    +114 stars over 84 days across 19 snapshot days; best day +5 on Oct 5.

    Forks

    1.8K+39

    Open issues

    30-48

    Compared with peers in CLI

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