pywry 2.0.5

A lightweight and blazingly fast, cross-platform, WebView rendering engine and desktop UI toolkit for Python. Batteries included.

PyWry is a cross-platform rendering engine and desktop UI toolkit for Python. One API, three output targets:

• Native window — OS webview via PyTauri. Not Qt, not Electron. Use unrestricted HTML/CSS/JS.
• Jupyter widget — anywidget + FastAPI + WebSocket, works in JupyterLab, VS Code, and Colab.
• Browser tab — FastAPI server with Redis state backend for horizontal scaling.

Build Once, Render Anywhere: Prototype interactive data apps in a Jupyter Notebook, easily deploy them as web apps, and seamlessly compile them into secure, lightweight standalone desktop executables via pywry[freeze].

Installation

Python 3.10–3.14, virtual environment recommended.

pip install pywry

Core extras:

Extra	When to use
pip install 'pywry[notebook]'	Jupyter / anywidget integration
pip install 'pywry[auth]'	OAuth2 and keyring-backed auth support
pip install 'pywry[freeze]'	PyInstaller hook for standalone executables
pip install 'pywry[mcp]'	Model Context Protocol server support
pip install 'pywry[sqlite]'	Encrypted SQLite state backend (SQLCipher)
pip install 'pywry[all]'	Everything above

Chat provider extras:

Extra	When to use
pip install 'pywry[openai]'	OpenAIProvider (OpenAI SDK)
pip install 'pywry[anthropic]'	AnthropicProvider (Anthropic SDK)
pip install 'pywry[magentic]'	MagenticProvider (any magentic-supported LLM)
pip install 'pywry[acp]'	StdioProvider (Agent Client Protocol subprocess)
pip install 'pywry[deepagent]'	DeepagentProvider (LangChain Deep Agents — includes MCP adapters and ACP)

The chat UI itself is included in the base package. Provider extras only install the matching third-party SDK.

Linux only — install system webview dependencies first:

sudo apt-get install libwebkit2gtk-4.1-dev libgtk-3-dev libglib2.0-dev \
    libxkbcommon-x11-0 libxcb-icccm4 libxcb-image0 libxcb-keysyms1 \
    libxcb-randr0 libxcb-render-util0 libxcb-xinerama0 libxcb-xfixes0 \
    libxcb-shape0 libgl1 libegl1

Quick Start

from pywry import PyWry

app = PyWry()
app.show("Hello World!")
app.block()

Toolbar + callbacks

from pywry import PyWry, Toolbar, Button

app = PyWry()

def on_click(data, event_type, label):
    app.emit("pywry:set-content", {"selector": "h1", "text": "Clicked!"}, label)

app.show(
    "<h1>Hello</h1>",
    toolbars=[Toolbar(position="top", items=[Button(label="Click me", event="app:click")])],
    callbacks={"app:click": on_click},
)
app.block()

Pandas DataFrame → AgGrid

from pywry import PyWry
import pandas as pd

app = PyWry()
df = pd.DataFrame({"name": ["Alice", "Bob", "Carol"], "age": [30, 25, 35]})

def on_select(data, event_type, label):
    names = ", ".join(row["name"] for row in data["rows"])
    app.emit("pywry:alert", {"message": f"Selected: {names}"}, label)

app.show_dataframe(df, callbacks={"grid:row-selected": on_select})
app.block()

Plotly chart

from pywry import PyWry
import plotly.express as px

app = PyWry(theme="light")
fig = px.scatter(px.data.iris(), x="sepal_width", y="sepal_length", color="species")
app.show_plotly(fig)
app.block()

Features

• Toolbar components — Button, Select, MultiSelect, TextInput, SecretInput, SliderInput, RangeInput, Toggle, Checkbox, RadioGroup, TabGroup, Marquee, Modal, and more. All Pydantic models; position them around the content edges or inside the chart area.
• Two-way events — app.emit() and app.on() bridge Python and JavaScript in both directions. Pre-wired Plotly and AgGrid events included.
• Chat — streaming chat widget with threads, slash commands, artifacts, and pluggable providers: OpenAIProvider, AnthropicProvider, MagenticProvider, CallbackProvider, StdioProvider (ACP subprocess), and DeepagentProvider (LangChain Deep Agents).
• TradingView charts — extended Lightweight Charts integration with a full drawing surface (trendlines, fib tools, text annotations, price notes, brushes), pluggable datafeed API, UDF adapter for external quote servers, streaming bar updates, compare overlays, compare-derivative indicators (Spread / Ratio / Sum / Product / Correlation), savable layouts, and a themeable settings panel.
• Theming — light / dark / system modes, themeable via --pywry-* CSS variables, hot reload during development.
• Security — token auth, CSP headers, SecuritySettings.strict() / .permissive() / .localhost() presets. SecretInput stores values server-side, never in HTML.
• State backends — in-memory (default), Redis (multi-worker), or SQLite with SQLCipher encryption at rest.
• Standalone executables — PyInstaller hook ships with pywry[freeze]. No .spec edits or --hidden-import flags required.
• MCP server — drive widgets, charts, and dashboards from any Model Context Protocol client (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, etc.).

MCP Server

pip install 'pywry[mcp]'
pywry mcp --transport stdio

See the MCP docs for Claude Desktop setup and tool reference.

Standalone Executables

pip install 'pywry[freeze]'
pyinstaller --windowed --name MyApp my_app.py

The output in dist/MyApp/ is fully self-contained. Target machines need no Python installation — only the OS webview (WebView2 on Windows 10 1803+, WKWebView on macOS, libwebkit2gtk on Linux).

Documentation

deeleeramone.github.io/PyWry

• Getting Started — installation, quick start, rendering paths
• Concepts — events, configuration, state, hot reload, RBAC
• Components — live previews for all toolbar components
• API Reference — auto-generated docs for every class and function
• MCP Server — AI agent integration

Release Artifacts

Release bundles include CycloneDX SBOM files as sbom.xml and sbom.json. These SBOM files are published with release artifacts rather than committed to repository root.

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.