No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
alpaca-trade-api has 1.2M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.2.0, first published in 2018.
Its repository is archived, last released in Jan 2024.
It is built on top of aiohttp, deprecation and msgpack. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including pyharmonics, speterlin-stocks and data-fetcher.
GitHub topics include alpaca, trade and api.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
73
Adoption
60
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
907 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,214,970
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,214,970
Stars
1,879
Stars per 1k downloads
1.55
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
20,551
Month daily avg
40,499
Momentum
-49.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
907 days ago
Total releases
81
Releases/year
9.9
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
268
Monthly downloads
1,214,970
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
80
Issue Burden
23.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
48.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
10.0K
Windows
990
macOS
475
Python Versions
3.11
51.0%
5.6K
3.12
29.1%
3.2K
3.10
8.3%
915
3.13
7.1%
778
3.14
4.5%
497
Top Countries
1.
US
9.3K
US
2.
DE
387
DE
3.
EE
241
EE
4.
JP
234
JP
5.
GB
194
GB
6.
HK
149
HK
7.
IN
138
IN
8.
SG
106
SG
9.
CN
99
CN
10.
TH
89
TH
Dependencies
10
- aiohttp <4,>=3.8.3
- deprecation ==2.1.0
- msgpack ==1.0.3
- numpy >=1.11.1
- pandas >=0.18.1
- pyyaml ==6.0.1
- requests <3,>2
- urllib3 <2,>1.24
- websocket-client <2,>=0.56.0
- websockets <11,>=9.0
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
May 4, 2018
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
3.2.0
Total Releases
81
Contributors
268
Open PRs
17
Archived
Yes
Author
Alpaca
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh