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alpacahq

alpaca-trade-api

Python client for Alpaca's trade API
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
94.7K
Weekly downloads
20.6K
GitHub stars
1.9K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
3.2.0
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
Unknown
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Alpaca
First Release
May 4, 2018
Total Releases
81
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

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
73
Adoption
59
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1008 days ago
Monthly downloads
94,725
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
94,725
Stars
1,881
Stars per 1k downloads
19.86
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
2,948
Month daily avg
3,158
Momentum
-6.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
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
1008 days ago
Total releases
81
Releases/year
9.6
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
66
Monthly downloads
94,725
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
76
 
Issue Burden
23.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.2K
Windows 48
macOS 18

Python Versions

3.8
30.7% 636
3.12
30.1% 625
3.11
23.7% 492
3.10
7.9% 164
3.13
7.6% 157

Top Countries

1. US US
2.1K
2. SG SG
19
3. NL NL
18
4. GB GB
12
5. CN CN
10
6. DE DE
10
7. SE SE
10
8. IN IN
9
9. MX MX
9
10. FR FR
7

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

10

Used By

13
View all 13 dependents

Repository details

Forks
549
Issues
45
Last Commit
2 years ago
Contributors
66
Open PRs
17
Archived
Yes

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
financial timeseries api trade
Sources and methodology