No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
boto has 7.2M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 2.49.0, first published in 2006.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2018.
It is used by 144 tracked packages, including gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin, awsretry and paasta-tools.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1402 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
83
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1516 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,244,023
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
7,244,023
Stars
6,428
Stars per 1k downloads
0.89
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
223,217
Month daily avg
241,467
Momentum
-7.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
2918 days ago
Total releases
121
Releases/year
6.1
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
523
Monthly downloads
7,244,023
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
80
Issue Burden
123.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1402d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
138.4K
Windows
631
macOS
329
Python Versions
3.11
30.0%
33.9K
3.9
20.5%
23.1K
3.10
19.0%
21.4K
3.7
16.7%
18.8K
3.12
13.7%
15.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
101.1K
US
2.
NL
11.2K
NL
3.
IE
7.8K
IE
4.
GB
3.9K
GB
5.
DE
3.2K
DE
6.
CA
3.1K
CA
7.
IN
2.6K
IN
8.
SG
1.6K
SG
9.
JP
1.5K
JP
10.
AU
591
AU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
144
- gcs-oauth2-boto-plugin
- awsretry
- paasta-tools
- wrapanapi
- rucio
- aws-amicleaner
- hive-builder
- rowgenerators
- imdbpie
- pipewelder
- perceptilabs
- smart-app-framework
- canalyst-candas
- pybenutils
- galaxy
- board-game-scraper
- model-catwalk
- flask-admin-s3-upload
- fancy-nlp
- chromogenic
- campbel
- cactus
- ds-utils
- apiarist
- animal-classification
- progressivis
- localstack-extension-aws-replicator
- aws-jupyter
- mia-processes
- seldon
- consumerism
- awssamlpy3
- ibeis
- zetta
- nlpkit-ml
- wildbook-ia
- awssamlpy2
- aws-ssm-tool
- cos-migrate-tool
- kerb-sts
- baiji
- aws-client
- osc-ingest-tools
- aioimdb
- ploy-ec2
- lava-cactus
- cos-migrate-tool-for-restore
- bdrc-volume-manifest-builder
- graphlab-create
- s3utils
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 16, 2006
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
4 years ago
Latest Version
2.49.0
Total Releases
121
Contributors
523
Open PRs
326
Archived
Yes
Author
Mitch Garnaat
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.3
3.4
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh