No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
biothings-client has 1.6M monthly downloads and 20 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2017.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of httpx, importlib-metadata and typing-extensions. It is used by 8 tracked packages, including myvariant, biothings-typed-client and bsxplorer.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
28
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
98 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,616,097
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
1,616,097
Stars
20
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
33,828
Month daily avg
53,870
Momentum
-37.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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-3-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
98 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
1.5
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
33
Monthly downloads
1,616,097
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
51
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
366.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
11.0K
Windows
122
macOS
92
Python Versions
3.13
43.9%
4.9K
3.12
21.6%
2.4K
3.10
19.3%
2.1K
3.11
14.5%
1.6K
3.9
0.7%
77
Top Countries
1.
US
10.2K
US
2.
SG
275
SG
3.
CN
244
CN
4.
IE
244
IE
5.
ID
107
ID
6.
HK
49
HK
7.
JP
41
JP
8.
DE
40
DE
9.
IN
26
IN
10.
KR
22
KR
Dependencies
3
- httpx >=0.25.0
- importlib-metadata
- typing-extensions
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 24, 2017
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.0
Total Releases
14
Contributors
33
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Cyrus Afrasiabi, Xinghua Zhou
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh