No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
blobfile has 11.1M monthly downloads and 73 GitHub stars. Version 3.2.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of filelock, lxml and pycryptodomex. It is used by 61 tracked packages, including sglang, torchtune and tinker-cookbook.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
42
Adoption
60
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
124 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,083,188
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
11,083,188
Stars
73
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
227,868
Month daily avg
369,440
Momentum
-38.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Public Domain
•
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
150 days ago
Total releases
79
Releases/year
11.2
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
17
Monthly downloads
11,083,188
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
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
41.5%
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
133.4K
Windows
779
macOS
588
Python Versions
3.12
61.4%
82.2K
3.10
18.8%
25.2K
3.11
10.8%
14.5K
3.13
7.2%
9.7K
3.14
1.8%
2.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
119.9K
US
2.
SG
3.1K
SG
3.
IL
1.7K
IL
4.
NL
1.4K
NL
5.
DE
1.3K
DE
6.
JP
1.2K
JP
7.
NO
1.0K
NO
8.
ID
984
ID
9.
KR
787
KR
10.
IE
526
IE
Dependencies
4
- filelock >=3.0
- lxml >=4.9
- pycryptodomex >=3.8
- urllib3 >=2
Used By
61
- sglang
- torchtune
- tinker-cookbook
- tensorrt-llm
- automated-interpretability
- batchalign
- idemlib
- gpustack
- veomni
- batchalignhk
- sglang-kt
- improved-diffusion-for-smlm
- ftllm
- evals
- google-jetstream
- nvidia-simple-evals
- fudstop4
- textseal
- cosmos-rl
- vail-model-registry
- llama-tokens
- logits-cookbook
- lsglang
- auto-circuit
- next-gen-ui-llama-stack-embedded
- t2v-metrics
- turbo-chat
- pandora-tiktoken
- llama-toolchain
- capabilities
- ramalama-stack
- latteries
- llmbench-cmri
- small-vlm
- zuna
- dr-agent
- tab-cli
- eai-delphi
- forked-torchtitan
- perception-models-perone
- miles-rl
- gpt-readme-reader
- hpcai
- structurecontext
- custom-torchtitan
- structuredcontext
- custom-veomni
- beit3-gml
- llama-agentic-system
- scdiffusionx
Package Information
License
Public Domain
First Release
June 24, 2019
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
3.2.0
Total Releases
79
Contributors
17
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Author
Christopher Hesse
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh