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id: shippinglabel
version: "2.3.0"
license: Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Dominic Davis-Foster Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal… (full text in the JSON record)
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# shippinglabel — Utilities for handling packages.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 817.0K/mo

## What it is and what it does

shippinglabel is a utility library for working with Python package metadata and distribution information. It handles parsing and manipulation of package data from PyPI and Conda ecosystems, with built-in support for package classifiers. The package includes a vendored copy of trove-classifiers but will defer to a newer pip-installed version if available, making it useful for tools that need to inspect or process package metadata programmatically.

The library depends on dist-meta, dom-toml, domdf-python-tools, packaging, and typing-extensions to handle metadata parsing and configuration. It supports Python 3.7 through 3.13 and runs on both CPython and PyPy, making it suitable for integration into build systems, package managers, or development tooling that needs reliable metadata handling.

Use it for:

- Inspect Python package metadata from PyPI or local distributions in build automation
- Extract and validate package requirements and dependencies programmatically
- Work with trove classifiers for package categorization in packaging tools
- Read and process TOML-based package configuration files
- Integrate package metadata handling into CI/CD pipelines or utilities

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

Provides utilities for reading and working with Python package metadata, requirements, and distribution information.

Yes. shippinglabel is actively maintained with no known vulnerabilities and offers low-friction installation. It's suitable for any project needing reliable Python package metadata utilities. The MIT license is permissive for both open and closed use.

## Install

pip install shippinglabel
uv add shippinglabel
poetry add shippinglabel

## Installing shippinglabel

Before you install: Low friction install with five runtime dependencies. Actively maintained with last commit on 2026-07-06 and production-stable status.

License in practice: MIT license permits unrestricted use, modification, and distribution in both open and closed projects with only attribution required.

Quickstart:

pip install shippinglabel

import shippinglabel
# Use shippinglabel utilities for package metadata handling

Verify before relying:

- Specific API surface and which package metadata operations are supported beyond generic utilities
- Whether the vendored trove-classifiers copy is kept current or requires manual updates

## Package facts

- License: Copyright (c) 2020-2022 Dominic Davis-Foster Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal… (full text in the JSON record) (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 817.0K/month (top 5,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

package metadata utilities, requirements parsing, pypi package tools, conda package handling, distribution metadata, metadata-handling, packaging-tools

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