No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
brotlicffi has 6.5M monthly downloads and 152 GitHub stars. Version 1.2.0.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2020.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of cffi. It is used by 19 tracked packages, including py7zr, flask-compress and open-webui.
GitHub topics include brotli.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
45
Popularity
45
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
123 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,543,900
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
6,543,900
Stars
152
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
167,910
Month daily avg
218,130
Momentum
-23.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
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
123 days ago
Total releases
7
Releases/year
1.2
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
35
Monthly downloads
6,543,900
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
57
Issue Burden
72.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
112.9%
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
85.2K
Windows
11.1K
macOS
7.0K
Python Versions
3.11
36.5%
36.1K
3.12
21.2%
21.1K
3.10
19.8%
19.6K
3.9
12.6%
12.5K
3.13
9.9%
9.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
76.7K
US
2.
CN
3.2K
CN
3.
DE
2.7K
DE
4.
SG
2.2K
SG
5.
JP
1.8K
JP
6.
HK
1.7K
HK
7.
IN
1.2K
IN
8.
NL
1.1K
NL
9.
FR
1.1K
FR
10.
GB
1.0K
GB
Dependencies
1
- cffi >=1.0.0
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 30, 2020
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.2.0.1
Total Releases
7
Contributors
35
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Cory Benfield
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
cp314
cp35
cp37
cp38
pp27
pp310
pp311
pp36
pp37
pp38
pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh