Monthly downloads
86.9K
Weekly downloads
22.6K
GitHub stars
4.3K
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>= 3.8
Licence
Apache 2.0
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Peter Brittain
First Release
April 15, 2015
Total Releases
24
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 982 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
75
Adoption
79
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
104 days ago
Monthly downloads
86,875
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
86,875
Stars
4,305
Stars per 1k downloads
49.55
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
3,227
Month daily avg
2,896
Momentum
+11.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>= 3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache 2.0
•
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
1087 days ago
Total releases
24
Releases/year
2.1
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
41
Monthly downloads
86,875
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
34
Issue Burden
3.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
982d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.6K
Windows
100
macOS
43
Python Versions
3.8
41.6%
1.5K
3.12
23.6%
836
3.11
17.7%
627
3.10
13.0%
461
3.13
4.1%
145
Top Countries
1.
US
2.8K
US
2.
SG
487
SG
3.
CN
170
CN
4.
DE
38
DE
5.
IN
29
IN
6.
AE
26
AE
7.
HK
26
HK
8.
JP
24
JP
9.
NL
15
NL
10.
CA
14
CA
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
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