No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
argparse has 20.9M monthly downloads and 57 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.0, first published in 2006.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2016.
It is used by 1,462 tracked packages, including pypinyin, snakebite-py3 and powerline-shell.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 1 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
6
Popularity
37
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1880 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,927,531
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
20,927,531
Stars
57
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
700,017
Month daily avg
697,584
Momentum
+0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Python Software Foundation License
•
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
3819 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
0.9
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
1
Monthly downloads
20,927,531
•
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
30
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1938d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
499.2K
Windows
14.3K
macOS
3.4K
Python Versions
3.9
25.0%
114.0K
3.12
22.4%
102.2K
3.11
21.6%
98.4K
3.7
16.6%
75.6K
3.10
14.3%
65.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
402.9K
US
2.
NL
15.9K
NL
3.
DE
14.1K
DE
4.
PL
14.0K
PL
5.
PE
13.6K
PE
6.
IN
7.5K
IN
7.
CN
7.0K
CN
8.
IE
6.6K
IE
9.
SG
5.7K
SG
10.
CA
5.0K
CA
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
1462
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Package Information
License
Python Software Foundation License
First Release
October 10, 2006
Last Release
10 years ago
Last Commit
5 years ago
Latest Version
0.5.0
Total Releases
17
Contributors
1
Open PRs
0
Archived
Yes
Author
Thomas Waldmann
Python Versions
2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
3
3.0
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh