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py-bson

bson

Independent BSON codec for Python that doesn't depend on MongoDB.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (py-bson/bson) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
30.5K
Week
210.5K
Month
969.8K
Stars
467
Forks
83
Issues
26
Version
0.5.10

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
56
Adoption
69
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
221 days ago
Monthly downloads
969,834
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
969,834
Stars
467
Stars per 1k downloads
0.48
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
30,070
Month daily avg
32,328
Momentum
-7.0%
((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
BSD
• 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
2232 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
2.0
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
28
Monthly downloads
969,834
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
60
 
Issue Burden
55.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2010d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 18.5K
Windows 69
macOS 33

Python Versions

3.11
51.4% 8.6K
3.12
28.8% 4.8K
3.10
7.8% 1.3K
3.9
6.2% 1.0K
3.7
5.8% 972

Top Countries

1. US US
10.6K
2. BR BR
4.0K
3. IN IN
1.6K
4. DE DE
1.3K
5. IE IE
536
6. GB GB
154
7. SG SG
58
8. NL NL
55
9. CA CA
53
10. CN CN
41

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
July 21, 2015
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.10
Total Releases
22
Contributors
28
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Ayun Park
Python Versions
2.6 2.7 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Keywords
BSON codec
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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