Trending Python Projects of the week

I wanted to make a compilation of some of the nicest Python projects that have gained popularity on GitHub this week.

SQLModel

As his creator defined, SQLModel is a Python library for interacting with SQL databases. It is based on Python type hints, and it uses Pydantic and SQLAlchemy internally. We can argue that SQLModel is just a layer on top of Pydantic and SQLAlchemy.

SQLModel was created by the same person who created FastAPI, so you can expect a pleasant and flawless integration between both.

Although SQLModel was launched no more than 4 months ago (at the time of writing this), it already offers many features, and some others are already being developed, I encourage you to give it a try.

• Github Repository
• Documentation

Python Fire

Python Fire is a library designed by Google for automatically generating command-line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object, so basically you can create a Python method and generate a CLI from it.

Here are some examples,

import firedef greeting(name="World"):  return "Hello %s!" % nameif __name__ == '__main__':  fire.Fire(greeting)

After import fire, we can use it to generate a CLI from greeting in this case.

python greeting.py  # Hello World!python greeting.py --name=Juan  # Hello Juan!python greeting.py --help  # Shows usage information.

I think this library is really helpful for debugging, developing some Python scripts.

• Github Repository
• Documentation

If you like to play with CLIs, you should try Typer, another great tool for building CLIs with Python.

Sherlock

This is simple, a Python script for searching usernames across several social networks, how cool is that huh?

I tried with my username and there are some sites that I dont know about, I should look into that

• Github Repository

changedetection.io

This is a tool for monitoring websites and get notifications when they change, so if you want to be on top of new information on the sites you like the most, give it a try.

Some use cases for this:

• Governmental department updates (changes are often only on their websites)
• Products and services have a change in pricing
• New software releases, security advisories when you're not on their mailing list.
• Festivals with changes
• Real estate listing changes
• COVID-19 related news from government websites

The best part about changedetection is that it is open source and you can self-host it.

• Github Repository

I hope you like this list and leave a comment if you have used some of these tools or if you know about other Python projects gaining popularity.