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bleach

Bleach is an allowed-list-based HTML sanitizing library that escapes or strips markup and attributes
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

bleach has 78M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 6.4.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2010.

Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of webencodings. It is used by 513 tracked packages, including nbconvert, kaggle and aa-memberaudit.

Downloads
Day
2.3M
Week
16.8M
Month
78.0M
Stars
2.8K
Forks
260
Issues
0
Version
6.4.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
16
Popularity
72
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
32 days ago
Monthly downloads
77,978,478
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
77,978,478
Stars
2,772
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
• 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
2,405,403
Month daily avg
2,599,283
Momentum
-7.5%
((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
Apache Software License
• 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
32 days ago
Total releases
57
Releases/year
3.5
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
67
Monthly downloads
77,978,478
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
48
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.8%
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 1.6M
Windows 41.7K
macOS 21.9K

Python Versions

3.12
23.7% 349.5K
3.9
22.5% 331.9K
3.10
22.3% 329.2K
3.11
18.8% 276.6K
3.13
12.7% 187.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.3M
2. IE IE
66.4K
3. NL NL
61.4K
4. GB GB
59.6K
5. SG SG
59.2K
6. DE DE
34.2K
7. IN IN
23.8K
8. CA CA
20.3K
9. AU AU
18.4K
10. FI FI
15.2K

Package Information

License
Apache Software License
First Release
February 23, 2010
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
6.4.0
Total Releases
57
Contributors
67
Open PRs
0
Archived
Yes
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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