No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
behave has 5.5M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 1.3.3, first published in 2011.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.
It is built on top of colorama, contextlib2 and cucumber-expressions. It is used by 111 tracked packages, including seleniumbase, allure-behave and behave-django.
GitHub topics include bdd, bdd-framework and behave.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 280 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
77
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
25 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,476,168
•
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
5,476,168
Stars
3,503
Stars per 1k downloads
0.64
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
194,010
Month daily avg
182,539
Momentum
+6.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,>=2.7
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
BSD-2-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
306 days ago
Total releases
16
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
91
Monthly downloads
5,476,168
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
91
Issue Burden
15.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
280d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
82.0K
Windows
6.6K
macOS
1.5K
Python Versions
3.11
41.8%
34.1K
3.12
26.5%
21.6K
3.10
14.0%
11.4K
3.13
12.3%
10.0K
3.14
5.4%
4.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
69.0K
US
2.
IE
6.3K
IE
3.
NL
3.4K
NL
4.
DE
2.6K
DE
5.
GB
1.8K
GB
6.
SG
1.1K
SG
7.
TW
1.1K
TW
8.
FR
607
FR
9.
CN
580
CN
10.
AU
455
AU
Dependencies
15
- colorama >=0.3.7
- contextlib2
- cucumber-expressions >=17.1.0
- cucumber-tag-expressions >=4.1.0
- enum34
- parse >=1.18.0
- parse-type >=0.6.0
- pathlib
- pathlib2 >=2.3.6
- scandir >=1.10.0
- six >=1.15.0
- toml >=0.10.2
- tomli >=1.1.0
- traceback2
- win-unicode-console
33 optional dependencies
- assertpy[testing]
- behave-html-formatter[formatters]
- behave-html-pretty-formatter[formatters]
- build[develop]
- chardet[testing]
- coverage[develop]
- freezegun[testing]
- furo[docs]
- invoke[develop]
- mock[develop]
- mock[testing]
- modernize[develop]
- path[testing]
- path[develop]
- path-py[testing]
- path-py[develop]
- pycmd[develop]
- pyhamcrest[develop]
- pyhamcrest[testing]
- pylint[develop]
- pytest[develop]
- pytest[testing]
- pytest-cov[develop]
- pytest-html[testing]
- pytest-html[develop]
- ruff[develop]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-copybutton[docs]
- sphinxcontrib-applehelp[docs]
- sphinxcontrib-htmlhelp[docs]
- tox[develop]
- twine[develop]
- virtualenv[develop]
Used By
111
- seleniumbase
- allure-behave
- behave-django
- behavex
- behavex-images
- aptos-sdk
- behave-reportportal
- behave-html-pretty-formatter
- haka-playwright-engine
- python-docx-ng
- apilogicserver
- sismic
- cucu
- sphinx-gherkindoc
- omnata-plugin-devkit
- holado
- behave-cucumber-matcher
- qecore
- behaving
- behave-pandas
- testit-adapter-behave
- tactus
- xtesting
- behave-modern-html-report
- behave-model
- pylint-behave
- behave-xray
- django-explicit-behave
- argobeast
- bpp-anubis
- vibe-tester
- orbs-cli
- behave-web-api
- sbt-zapp
- behave-http
- qase-behave
- semantic-api
- judo-framework
- kanbus
- behave-modern-md-report
- flybirds
- plotlypowerpoint
- behave-parallel-runners
- qat
- nexio-behave
- funfedi-runner
- build-harness
- behave-modern-console-report
- py-bdd-test
- dretools
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
December 5, 2011
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.3.3
Total Releases
16
Contributors
91
Open PRs
22
Archived
No
Author
Benno Rice, Richard Jones
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh