PyRank
jaraco

backports-tarfile

Backport of CPython tarfile module
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

backports-tarfile has 77.8M monthly downloads and 5 GitHub stars. Version 1.2.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2024.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2024.

It is used by 92 tracked packages, including jaraco-context, docassemble-base and docassemble-webapp.

Downloads
Day
2.3M
Week
17.5M
Month
77.8M
Stars
5
Forks
2
Issues
3
Version
1.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
15
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
84 days ago
Monthly downloads
77,783,175
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
77,783,175
Stars
5
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
2,498,312
Month daily avg
2,592,772
Momentum
-3.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
770 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
1.8
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
7
Monthly downloads
77,783,175
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
15
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
350.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
685d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.6M
Windows 23.1K
macOS 20.8K

Python Versions

3.10
53.7% 869.0K
3.11
37.1% 599.3K
3.12
4.0% 65.4K
3.9
3.1% 49.9K
3.13
2.1% 33.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.4M
2. IE IE
37.5K
3. DE DE
35.0K
4. NL NL
31.2K
5. SG SG
20.9K
6. GB GB
13.9K
7. CA CA
12.7K
8. AU AU
11.3K
9. BR BR
10.9K
10. AT AT
9.7K

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
April 6, 2024
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
1.2.0
Total Releases
4
Contributors
7
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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