No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
argparse-addons has 3.6M monthly downloads and 3 GitHub stars. Version 0.12.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2020.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2023.
It is used by 6 tracked packages, including cantools, odxtools and bincopy.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 2 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
15
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1254 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,631,136
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
3,631,136
Stars
3
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
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
110,079
Month daily avg
121,038
Momentum
-9.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
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
1254 days ago
Total releases
11
Releases/year
1.8
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
2
Monthly downloads
3,631,136
•
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
8
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.0%
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
31.7K
Windows
839
macOS
422
Python Versions
3.10
59.3%
19.0K
3.12
28.0%
9.0K
3.11
9.7%
3.1K
3.13
2.2%
697
3.9
0.8%
257
Top Countries
1.
US
27.4K
US
2.
DE
3.5K
DE
3.
NL
1.2K
NL
4.
IE
765
IE
5.
CA
745
CA
6.
SE
684
SE
7.
PL
676
PL
8.
SG
617
SG
9.
AU
573
AU
10.
BE
470
BE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
June 21, 2020
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
0.12.0
Total Releases
11
Contributors
2
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Erik Moqvist
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh