Monthly downloads
321.8K
Weekly downloads
69.5K
GitHub stars
796
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Last Release
3 months ago
Author
The Astroquery Developers
First Release
September 15, 2013
Total Releases
194
Python Versions
3
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 100 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
67
Adoption
65
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
321,836
•
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
321,836
Stars
796
Stars per 1k downloads
2.47
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
9,921
Month daily avg
10,728
Momentum
-7.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
114 days ago
Total releases
194
Releases/year
14.8
•
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
215
Monthly downloads
321,836
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
457.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
100d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
8.2K
macOS
300
Windows
201
Python Versions
3.12
38.4%
3.0K
3.11
29.6%
2.3K
3.14
12.1%
960
3.10
11.6%
923
3.13
8.3%
654
Top Countries
1.
US
8.0K
US
2.
DE
198
DE
3.
SG
158
SG
4.
CA
109
CA
5.
CN
78
CN
6.
FR
70
FR
7.
BE
68
BE
8.
GB
68
GB
9.
NL
65
NL
10.
IN
64
IN
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
7
- astropy >=5.0
- beautifulsoup4 >=4.10
- html5lib >=0.999
- keyring >=23.0
- numpy >=1.22
- pyvo >=1.5
- requests >=2.26
21 optional dependencies
-
astropy-healpix[all]extra == "all"
-
boto3[all]extra == "all"
-
botocore[all]extra == "all"
-
fsspec[test]extra == "test"
-
fsspec[docs]extra == "docs"
-
matplotlib[test]extra == "test"
-
matplotlib[docs]extra == "docs"
-
mocpy>=0.12[all]extra == "all"
-
moto[test]extra == "test"
-
pytest>=7.4[test]extra == "test"
-
pytest-astropy[test]extra == "test"
-
pytest-dependency[test]platform_system != "Windows" and extra == "test"
-
pytest-doctestplus>=1.4[test]extra == "test"
-
pytest-rerunfailures[test]extra == "test"
-
pytest-timeout[test]extra == "test"
-
regions>=0.5[all]extra == "all"
-
s3fs[test]extra == "test"
-
scipy[docs]extra == "docs"
-
sphinx[docs]extra == "docs"
-
sphinx-astropy>=1.5[docs]extra == "docs"
-
sphinx-automodapi[docs]extra == "docs"
Used By
402
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- poliastro 25.8K/mo
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Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh