PyRank
danielgtaylor

betterproto

Clean, modern, Python 3.6+ code generator & library for Protobuf 3 and async gRPC
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

betterproto has 3.1M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.2.5 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2019.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2020.

It is used by 154 tracked packages, including tiktoklive, stigg-sidecar-sdk and sigstore-protobuf-specs.

GitHub topics include protocol-buffer-compiler, asyncio and grpc.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (danielgtaylor/python-betterproto) with 4 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
80.1K
Week
652.3K
Month
3.1M
Stars
1.8K
Forks
233
Issues
155
Version
1.2.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
69
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
354 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,086,576
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
3,086,576
Stars
1,766
Stars per 1k downloads
0.57
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
93,190
Month daily avg
102,886
Momentum
-9.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
• 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
2231 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
2.4
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
83
Monthly downloads
3,086,576
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
66
 
Issue Burden
87.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1877d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 44.6K
Windows 703
macOS 640

Python Versions

3.12
32.5% 13.9K
3.11
30.9% 13.2K
3.10
14.2% 6.1K
3.13
12.1% 5.2K
3.14
10.4% 4.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
33.6K
2. BR BR
4.4K
3. DE DE
3.0K
4. IE IE
1.2K
5. NL NL
991
6. GB GB
436
7. BE BE
398
8. SG SG
393
9. ES ES
259
10. FR FR
136
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 23, 2019
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
11 months ago
Latest Version
1.2.5
Total Releases
16
Contributors
83
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Author
Daniel G. Taylor
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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