TextBlob
sloriaPython library with a simple API for common text-processing tasks - noun-phrase extraction, part-of-speech tagging, sentiment analysis, classification, tokenization, n-grams, inflection, lemmatization, spelling correction and WordNet lookup. It builds on NLTK and on parts of the pattern library, and its classifiers wrap NLTK's naive Bayes and decision-tree learners.
Openness
5 high confidence- license
- MIT(OSI)
- source
- public(github.com/sloria/TextBlob)
- core features withheld
- no — maintained by its author
MIT-licensed and built from the public repository its author maintains; the vendored parts of pattern carry their own BSD-style notice. Nothing is sold.
- https://pypi.org/pypi/textblob/json recorded 2026-09-27
PyPI record for textblob 0.20.1, uploaded 2026-07-18, license_expression MIT, Source github.com/sloria/TextBlob.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sloria/TextBlob/dev/LICENSE recorded 2026-09-27
LICENSE opens "Copyright Steven Loria and contributors" followed by the MIT permission text.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sloria/TextBlob/dev/NOTICE recorded 2026-09-27
NOTICE: "TextBlob includes some vendorized python libraries, including parts of pattern."
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sloria/TextBlob/dev/README.rst recorded 2026-09-27
README describes the library and its features; no paid tier or commercial edition mentioned.
- https://ungh.cc/repos/sloria/TextBlob/files/dev recorded 2026-09-27
Repository tree of 90 paths with no ee, enterprise, commercial or pro directory.
Adoption
4 high confidenceMeasured on monthly PyPI downloads of the textblob package.
- https://pypistats.org/api/packages/textblob/recent recorded 2026-09-27
last_month 2,856,868 downloads of textblob
Capability
2 medium confidenceTextBlob makes a handful of NLTK's tools easy to call and adds two ready text classifiers. It is a convenience layer over a narrower slice of what NLTK itself provides, so it sits a step below it.
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sloria/TextBlob/dev/README.rst recorded 2026-09-27
README: "TextBlob is a Python library for processing textual data. It provides a simple API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks"; features include "Classification (Naive Bayes, Decision Tree)", sentiment analysis, part-of-speech tagging and noun phrase extraction.
Verified 2026-09-27