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automat

Self-service finite-state machines for the programmer on the go.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

automat has 13.6M monthly downloads and 647 GitHub stars. Version 25.4.16 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2025.

It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 36 tracked packages, including twisted, txtorcon and magic-wormhole.

Downloads
Day
380.2K
Week
2.8M
Month
13.6M
Stars
647
Forks
69
Issues
15
Version
25.4.16

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
57
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
333 days ago
Monthly downloads
13,557,430
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
13,557,430
Stars
647
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
• 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
403,574
Month daily avg
451,914
Momentum
-10.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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 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
446 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
1.1
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
36
Monthly downloads
13,557,430
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
52
 
Issue Burden
23.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
52.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
113d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 217.7K
Windows 4.5K
macOS 2.6K

Python Versions

3.12
41.2% 80.0K
3.11
24.5% 47.6K
3.13
13.1% 25.4K
3.10
11.8% 22.9K
3.14
9.4% 18.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
162.2K
2. IL IL
12.6K
3. IE IE
8.1K
4. DE DE
7.1K
5. SG SG
4.1K
6. IN IN
4.0K
7. NL NL
3.7K
8. GB GB
3.3K
9. FR FR
1.7K
10. AU AU
1.6K

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
September 20, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
11 months ago
Latest Version
25.4.16
Total Releases
13
Contributors
36
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
fsm state machine automata
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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