Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
MIT
Last Release
2 months ago
Author
Africa's Talking
First Release
February 28, 2018
Total Releases
29
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
52
Adoption
66
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
77 days ago
Monthly downloads
48,550
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
48,550
Stars
161
Stars per 1k downloads
3.32
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
1,622
Month daily avg
1,618
Momentum
+0.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
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
77 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
3.4
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
17
Monthly downloads
48,550
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
46
Issue Burden
12.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.4K
Windows
18
macOS
5
Python Versions
3.12
57.5%
782
3.11
19.5%
266
3.10
11.0%
150
3.13
7.2%
98
3.14
4.8%
65
Top Countries
1.
US
1.2K
US
2.
ZA
71
ZA
3.
FR
58
FR
4.
CA
38
CA
5.
SG
23
SG
6.
BE
22
BE
7.
DE
19
DE
8.
KE
12
KE
9.
NL
9
NL
10.
GB
7
GB
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Used By
7
- wapimaji-mcp 2.2K/mo
- mpesa-mcp 1.7K/mo
- mseep-africas-talking-airtime-mcp-server 256/mo
- afri-auth-sms 256/mo
- django-sms-package 117/mo
- kenya-sms 68/mo
- event-sms-notifier 60/mo
Repository details
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh