No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
astroid has 53.5M monthly downloads and 580 GitHub stars. Version 4.1.2 supports Python 3.10.0+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 206 tracked packages, including pylint, sphinx-autoapi and pylint-gitlab.
GitHub topics include ast, parser and inference-engine.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 103 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
64
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
53,540,860
•
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
53,540,860
Stars
580
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
1,719,746
Month daily avg
1,784,695
Momentum
-3.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10.0
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
LGPL-2.1-or-later
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
106 days ago
Total releases
188
Releases/year
14.5
•
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
211
Monthly downloads
53,540,860
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
80
Issue Burden
262.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
62.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
103d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.3M
Windows
16.8K
macOS
9.6K
Python Versions
3.13
46.2%
564.1K
3.11
20.7%
252.8K
3.12
18.7%
228.3K
3.10
9.2%
112.2K
3.14
5.1%
62.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
999.9K
US
2.
IE
90.4K
IE
3.
GB
42.0K
GB
4.
DE
28.0K
DE
5.
SG
26.2K
SG
6.
NL
19.0K
NL
7.
FR
15.6K
FR
8.
IN
15.2K
IN
9.
BE
9.5K
BE
10.
HK
9.1K
HK
Dependencies
1
Used By
206
- pylint
- sphinx-autoapi
- pylint-gitlab
- requirements-detector
- docsig
- sphinx-autodoc2
- flake8-django
- pylint-protobuf
- bec-lib
- databricks-labs-pylint
- ip2geotools
- flake8-warnings
- code2llm
- pytest-impacted
- pynguin
- databricks-labs-ucx
- pygraph-mcp
- emdash-core
- emdash-ai
- sphinx-pyreverse
- grimoirelab
- pylint-sqlalchemy2
- python-ta
- dalineunit
- code-discovery
- etiq-copilot
- ytrss
- pysymbol-llm
- pypaperbot
- mega-snake
- ragdaemon
- astypes
- archlens
- dslinter
- infer-types
- clean-code-tools-python
- rf-sclibrary
- deal-solver
- py-ts-interfaces
- olm
- devon-agent
- ai-code-autodoc
- zero-true
- fix-agent
- cowgirl-ai-auto-code
- lokk
- emzed-spyder
- animal-classification
- ai-trust-validator
- accomate
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
LGPL-2.1-or-later
First Release
July 30, 2013
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
4.1.2
Total Releases
188
Contributors
211
Open PRs
30
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh