PyRank
ably

ably

Python client library SDK for Ably realtime messaging service
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

ably has 1.2M monthly downloads and 55 GitHub stars. Version 3.1.2 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2016.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of h2, httpx and msgpack. It is used by 2 tracked packages, including promptlayer and dev-assistant-client.

GitHub topics include client-library, rest and sdk.

Downloads
Day
50.7K
Week
270.8K
Month
1.2M
Stars
55
Forks
27
Issues
31
Version
3.1.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
38
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,169,891
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,169,891
Stars
55
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
38,691
Month daily avg
38,996
Momentum
-0.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
102 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
4.5
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
49
Monthly downloads
1,169,891
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
74
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
181.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
95d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 15.2K
macOS 12
Windows 6

Python Versions

3.11
52.8% 7.9K
3.13
33.1% 5.0K
3.12
10.7% 1.6K
3.14
3.0% 452
3.7
0.3% 41

Top Countries

1. US US
15.1K
2. RU RU
66
3. NL NL
58
4. DE DE
38
5. IE IE
16
6. IN IN
12
7. GB GB
9
8. PK PK
7
9. EG EG
6
10. SE SE
6

Dependencies

5
15 optional dependencies

Used By

2
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 9, 2016
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
3.1.2
Total Releases
47
Contributors
49
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

Links