rich-click

Format click help output nicely with rich

rich-click Permissive license MIT License Copyright (c) 2022 Phil Ewels Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in… (full text in the JSON record) Active ★ 816 v1.9.8 released 2026-05-28

Install

rich-click on PyPI

pip

pip install rich-click

uv

uv add rich-click

poetry

poetry add rich-click

Package facts

License	MIT License Copyright (c) 2022 Phil Ewels Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in… (full text in the JSON record) (permissive)
Python support	supports the current Python release (>=3.8)
Install friction	low — pure-Python wheel
Runtime dependencies	4 — click, colorama, rich, typing-extensions
Maintenance	actively maintained — 77 days since the last release
Last repo commit	2026-08-12
First released	2022-02-09
Popularity	one of the top 1,000 most-downloaded packages on PyPI (30-day window, as of 2026-08-13)
Known vulnerabilities	none known (OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-13)

Evidence: rich_click-1.9.8-py3-none-any.whl

Development Status :: 3 - AlphaIntended Audience :: DevelopersOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: PythonProgramming Language :: Python :: 3 :: OnlyProgramming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9

About rich-click

from the package's own PyPI description — quoted content, verbatim

<picture> <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ewels/rich-click/main/docs/images/rich-click-logo-darkmode.png"> <img alt="rich-click logo" src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ewels/rich-click/main/docs/images/rich-click-logo.png"> </picture> Richly rendered command line interfaces in click. <img src="https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/rich-click?logo=pypi" alt="PyPI"/> <img src="https://github.com/ewels/rich-click/workflows/Test%20Coverage/badge.svg" alt="Test Coverage badge"> <img src="https://github.com/ewels/rich-click/workflows/Lint%20code/badge.svg" alt="Lint code badge">

<a href="https://ewels.github.io/rich-click">Documentation</a>&nbsp&nbsp·&nbsp&nbsp<a href="https://github.com/ewels/rich-click">Source Code</a>&nbsp&nbsp·&nbsp&nbsp<a href="https://github.com/ewels/rich-click">Changelog</a>

rich-click is a wrapper around Click that renders help output nicely using...

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