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brotlipy

Python bindings to the Brotli compression library
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

brotlipy has 1.7M monthly downloads and 152 GitHub stars. Version 0.7.0, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2021.

It is built on top of cffi and enum34. It is used by 35 tracked packages, including localstack-extension-httpbin, history4feed and h2spacex.

GitHub topics include brotli.

Downloads
Day
51.2K
Week
381.3K
Month
1.7M
Stars
152
Forks
31
Issues
11
Version
0.7.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
45
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
124 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,654,711
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
1,654,711
Stars
152
Stars per 1k downloads
0.09
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
54,468
Month daily avg
55,157
Momentum
-1.2%
((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
1769 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
1.3
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
1,654,711
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
1645d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 36.6K
Windows 67
macOS 19

Python Versions

3.10
75.4% 26.5K
3.11
16.4% 5.8K
3.13
3.5% 1.2K
3.9
3.0% 1.1K
3.12
1.7% 612

Top Countries

1. IE IE
24.4K
2. US US
11.8K
3. DE DE
168
4. SG SG
129
5. NL NL
83
6. HK HK
69
7. GB GB
57
8. CN CN
38
9. KR KR
31
10. TW TW
31
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 3, 2015
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
0.7.0
Total Releases
14
Contributors
35
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Cory Benfield
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp33 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp226 pp27 pp36 pp37
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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