PyRank
binaryornot

binaryornot

Binary file detection that actually works. 131 extensions, 55 magic-byte signatures, a trained decision tree, and zero dependencies.
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

binaryornot has 27.2M monthly downloads and 148 GitHub stars. Version 0.6.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is used by 86 tracked packages, including openhands-tools, cookiecutter and openhands-aci.

Downloads
Day
722.6K
Week
6.2M
Month
27.2M
Stars
148
Forks
46
Issues
6
Version
0.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
47
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
118 days ago
Monthly downloads
27,183,681
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
27,183,681
Stars
148
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
886,614
Month daily avg
906,123
Momentum
-2.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
120 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
0.8
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
13
Monthly downloads
27,183,681
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
65
 
Issue Burden
40.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.3%
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 459.9K
Windows 4.5K
macOS 2.3K

Python Versions

3.13
51.7% 228.7K
3.12
31.4% 138.6K
3.11
8.0% 35.3K
3.10
7.0% 30.9K
3.9
1.9% 8.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
352.7K
2. SG SG
59.3K
3. IN IN
13.5K
4. JP JP
7.6K
5. IE IE
5.9K
6. DE DE
5.7K
7. NL NL
4.8K
8. HK HK
3.7K
9. GB GB
2.6K
10. BR BR
2.0K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 17, 2013
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.6.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
13
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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