No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
apsw has 2.5M monthly downloads and 843 GitHub stars. Version 3.53.3.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained, last released in Jul 2026.
It is used by 77 tracked packages, including shillelagh, rosbags and apswutils.
GitHub topics include sqlite3 and c.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 4 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
61
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,465,739
•
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
2,465,739
Stars
843
Stars per 1k downloads
0.34
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
78,076
Month daily avg
82,191
Momentum
-5.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
any-OSI
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
4 days ago
Total releases
58
Releases/year
4.8
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
4
Monthly downloads
2,465,739
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
41
Issue Burden
21.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
13.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.7%
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
48.6K
Windows
638
macOS
431
Python Versions
3.11
35.8%
17.4K
3.12
28.3%
13.7K
3.10
27.7%
13.5K
3.13
5.9%
2.9K
3.14
2.3%
1.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
38.5K
US
2.
IE
3.7K
IE
3.
NL
1.3K
NL
4.
SG
1.2K
SG
5.
GB
981
GB
6.
IN
968
IN
7.
RU
815
RU
8.
DE
516
DE
9.
FR
505
FR
10.
JP
424
JP
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
77
- shillelagh
- rosbags
- apswutils
- pbixray
- red-discordbot
- appthreat-vulnerability-db
- agentmake
- modastack
- blint
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- p115tinydav
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- pipulate
- freegenius
- nanasqlite
- brainlayer
- py-sse
- pbix-mcp
- bobi
- sqlite-s3vfs
- mhcbooster
- clodius
- qcportal
- searchbible
- alexandria3k
- nyansqlite
- arc-memory
- claude-code-indexer
- democrai
- dopplerr
- hippo-db
- caterpillar
- pytaku
- gutenberg2zim
- cephios-core
- evaluatr
- crystal-web
- animanager
- nonebot-plugin-lazytea
- flashsql
- xchem-hippo
- semantic-search-mcp
- greploom
- searchbibleai
- biblesearchai
- shmarql
- depreach
- biblesearch
- cgat-daisy
- panpipes
Package Information
License
any-OSI
First Release
July 8, 2014
Last Release
5 days ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
3.53.3.0
Total Releases
58
Contributors
4
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Roger Binns
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh