No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
ansible-runner has 1.9M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 2.3.8 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2018.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of importlib-metadata, packaging and pexpect. It is used by 70 tracked packages, including ansible-navigator, bbot and ansible-rulebook.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
68
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,880,936
•
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
1,880,936
Stars
1,072
Stars per 1k downloads
0.57
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
61,028
Month daily avg
62,698
Momentum
-2.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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 Software License, Version 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
76 days ago
Total releases
61
Releases/year
7.4
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
120
Monthly downloads
1,880,936
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
76.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
61d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
34.8K
macOS
176
Windows
51
Python Versions
3.12
48.7%
16.2K
3.11
32.9%
11.0K
3.9
8.5%
2.8K
3.13
5.9%
2.0K
3.14
4.0%
1.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
27.0K
US
2.
PL
2.0K
PL
3.
DE
1.1K
DE
4.
CA
958
CA
5.
HK
698
HK
6.
MY
503
MY
7.
FR
444
FR
8.
GB
422
GB
9.
CN
260
CN
10.
IL
235
IL
Dependencies
6
- importlib-metadata <6.3,>=4.6
- packaging
- pexpect >=4.5
- python-daemon
- pyyaml
- six
Used By
70
- ansible-navigator
- bbot
- ansible-rulebook
- ansible-runner-http
- pytest-pve-cloud
- pyhostprep
- netbox-manager
- xtesting
- jinjamator
- rocannon
- ansiburr
- clawrium
- iac-init
- cloud-pak-operations-cli
- orchestrator-lso
- ewccli
- kyutil
- amscrot-py
- lampsible
- oxl-ansible-webui
- labops
- vm-tool
- firewheel
- exasol-ansible-runner-wrapper
- provisioner-shared
- aac-init
- dmtri
- machine-stats
- matrixctl
- docksible
- opswork
- bastion-key-client
- airflow-ansible-provider
- tempor
- maestro-compose
- micado-client
- oak-cli
- livchat-setup
- philip-machine
- desmo-api
- vship
- sysbot
- runspec-playbook
- machine-stats-alpha
- python-esiclient
- ptlearn
- qd2-orchestrator
- fabfed-py
- surface-cdms
- beauris
Package Information
License
Apache Software License, Version 2.0
First Release
April 27, 2018
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.3.8
Total Releases
61
Contributors
120
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Author
Ansible, Inc.
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh