spinners
Spinners for terminals
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes, if you need a curated set of terminal spinner definitions for a CLI tool and want to avoid hardcoding animation frames. The low install friction and permissive MIT license make it a lightweight addition. However, maintenance is dormant (last release 2020-02-19); if you need active support or updates to spinner definitions, evaluate alternatives first.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Low install friction with a single lightweight dependency (enum34).
- Maintenance is dormant—last release was 2020-02-19 and no commits since 2024-07-31—but the package is stable and has 247 repository stars.
License · maintenance · safety
MIT (permissive) — MIT license is permissive and imposes no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution in your own projects.
last release 2020-02-19 (2368 days) · last repo commit 2024-07-31 · 247 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 1,867,368 downloads/mo, #3,477 on PyPI
Alternatives
Verify before relying
from spinners import Spinners
print(Spinners.line.value)
# Output: {'frames': ['-', '\\', '|', '/'], 'interval': 130}- Whether enum34 is required only for Python 2 compatibility and can be skipped on Python 3.4+
- Whether the spinner data is current with the upstream cli-spinners library or has diverged
- Active maintenance status and likelihood of updates to spinner definitions
What it is and what it does
Spinners is a Python wrapper that exposes more than 60 terminal spinner animations as an enum. Each spinner entry contains frame sequences (the individual characters to display) and an interval (the millisecond delay between frames). You import the Spinners enum and access individual spinners by name to retrieve their animation data as dictionaries.
The package is intended as a data source for building terminal loading indicators—it does not render or animate spinners itself, only provides the animation definitions. It depends on enum34 for enum support.
Use it for
- Retrieve spinner frame data to build a custom terminal loading indicator in your CLI tool
- Populate a progress display with pre-defined animation sequences without hardcoding frame strings
- Access standardized spinner definitions across multiple projects via a shared enum
- Prototype terminal UI elements that need animated busy indicators
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
Yes, if you need a curated set of terminal spinner definitions for a CLI tool and want to avoid hardcoding animation frames.
The low install friction and permissive MIT license make it a lightweight addition. However, maintenance is dormant (last release 2020-02-19); if you need active support or updates to spinner definitions, evaluate alternatives first.
Install
spinners on PyPI
Before you install
Low install friction with a single lightweight dependency (enum34). Maintenance is dormant—last release was 2020-02-19 and no commits since 2024-07-31—but the package is stable and has 247 repository stars.
License in practice
MIT license is permissive and imposes no restrictions on use, modification, or distribution in your own projects.
Quickstart
from spinners import Spinners
print(Spinners.line.value)
# Output: {'frames': ['-', '\\', '|', '/'], 'interval': 130}Verify before relying
- Whether enum34 is required only for Python 2 compatibility and can be skipped on Python 3.4+
- Whether the spinner data is current with the upstream cli-spinners library or has diverged
- Active maintenance status and likelihood of updates to spinner definitions
Package facts
| License | MIT permissive |
| Python support | Not specified |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 1 packageenum34 |
| Maintenance | Dormant 2,368 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 1,867,368 / month, #3,477 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
Evidence: spinners-0.0.24-py3-none-any.whl
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