No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
bc-detect-secrets has 5M monthly downloads and 8 GitHub stars. Version 1.5.47 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2022.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of pyyaml, requests and unidiff. It is used by 8 tracked packages, including checkov, llm-guard and s1-shift-left-cli.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 2 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
23
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
111 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,953,637
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
4,953,637
Stars
8
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
159,839
Month daily avg
165,121
Momentum
-3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Apache License 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
111 days ago
Total releases
89
Releases/year
23.5
•
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
2
Monthly downloads
4,953,637
•
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
28
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
52.0K
macOS
440
Windows
286
Python Versions
3.12
55.1%
27.4K
3.11
19.8%
9.9K
3.14
10.2%
5.1K
3.13
8.6%
4.3K
3.10
6.3%
3.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
44.1K
US
2.
DE
1.4K
DE
3.
IE
1.1K
IE
4.
NL
1.1K
NL
5.
GB
1.1K
GB
6.
IN
888
IN
7.
FR
556
FR
8.
SG
498
SG
9.
AU
439
AU
10.
SE
375
SE
Dependencies
3
2 optional dependencies
- gibberish-detector[gibberish]
- pyahocorasick[word-list]
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
September 21, 2022
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
1.5.47
Total Releases
89
Contributors
2
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
bridgecrew
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh