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sepandhaghighi

art

🎨 ASCII art library for Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

art has 1.2M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 6.5 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2017.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2025.

It is used by 255 tracked packages, including dreadnode, pyrit and omniopt2.

GitHub topics include ascii, ascii-art and ascii-text.

Downloads
Day
40.6K
Week
291.9K
Month
1.2M
Stars
2.5K
Forks
157
Issues
10
Version
6.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
69
Adoption
80
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
450 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,224,142
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
1,224,142
Stars
2,482
Stars per 1k downloads
2.03
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
41,700
Month daily avg
40,805
Momentum
+2.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
450 days ago
Total releases
65
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
9
Monthly downloads
1,224,142
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
33
 
Issue Burden
4.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.7%
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 29.9K
Windows 462
macOS 153

Python Versions

3.11
81.3% 24.0K
3.12
11.3% 3.3K
3.14
3.5% 1.0K
3.13
2.4% 718
3.10
1.5% 443

Top Countries

1. IE IE
12.5K
2. GB GB
9.9K
3. US US
6.3K
4. FI FI
425
5. FR FR
226
6. CA CA
156
7. SG SG
136
8. DE DE
133
9. IT IT
113
10. IN IN
94
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 4, 2017
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
6.5
Total Releases
65
Contributors
9
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Sepand Haghighi
Python Versions
3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
ascii art python3 python text font non-ascii printing
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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