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brotli

Brotli compression format
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

brotli has 88.5M monthly downloads and 15K GitHub stars. Version 1.2.0, first published in 2016.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is used by 521 tracked packages, including gradio, geventhttpclient and py7zr.

Downloads
Day
3.0M
Week
21.0M
Month
88.5M
Stars
14.8K
Forks
1.3K
Issues
73
Version
1.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
60
Popularity
88
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
88,529,959
• 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
88,529,959
Stars
14,775
Stars per 1k downloads
0.17
• 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
3,001,455
Month daily avg
2,950,999
Momentum
+1.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
243 days ago
Total releases
1
Releases/year
0.1
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
137
Monthly downloads
88,529,959
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
64
 
Issue Burden
4.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
239d
 
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 78.3K
macOS 36.9K

Python Versions

3.12
42.8% 702.8K
3.11
19.7% 322.6K
3.10
16.5% 270.9K
3.13
14.5% 237.7K
3.14
6.5% 106.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.3M
2. DE DE
83.9K
3. NL NL
75.7K
4. IE IE
37.8K
5. IN IN
32.8K
6. SG SG
31.3K
7. JP JP
18.4K
8. GB GB
15.7K
9. CN CN
15.3K
10. HK HK
13.8K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 12, 2016
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
1.2.0
Total Releases
1
Contributors
137
Open PRs
17
Archived
No
Author
The Brotli Authors
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.3 3.4 3.5
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp37 pp38 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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