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appdirs

A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific dirs, e.g. a "user data dir".
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

appdirs has 38.2M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.4.4, first published in 2010.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2020.

It is used by 1,878 tracked packages, including crewai, wbdata and crewai-core.

Downloads
Day
1.3M
Week
9.3M
Month
38.2M
Stars
1.1K
Forks
99
Issues
30
Version
1.4.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
62
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1242 days ago
Monthly downloads
38,246,679
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
38,246,679
Stars
1,078
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• 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
1,333,409
Month daily avg
1,274,889
Momentum
+4.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
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
2248 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
0.5
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
58
Monthly downloads
38,246,679
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
60
 
Issue Burden
27.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
58.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1005d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 883.0K
Windows 14.9K
macOS 8.6K

Python Versions

3.12
58.1% 484.2K
3.11
18.8% 156.3K
3.13
11.1% 92.3K
3.10
8.7% 72.5K
3.9
3.3% 27.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
729.3K
2. IE IE
32.7K
3. SG SG
20.0K
4. NL NL
18.4K
5. DE DE
16.4K
6. GB GB
10.3K
7. FR FR
9.7K
8. CN CN
8.4K
9. IN IN
8.3K
10. CA CA
7.9K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
September 2, 2010
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
1.4.4
Total Releases
8
Contributors
58
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Author
Trent Mick
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
application directory log cache user
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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