No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
bytecode has 34.9M monthly downloads and 338 GitHub stars. Version 0.18.1 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 25 tracked packages, including ddtrace, aws-opentelemetry-distro and azure-ml-component.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
52
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
14 days ago
Monthly downloads
34,918,826
•
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
34,918,826
Stars
338
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
1,068,932
Month daily avg
1,163,961
Momentum
-8.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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 License
•
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
33 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
2.4
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
24
Monthly downloads
34,918,826
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
53
Issue Burden
23.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
48.0%
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
319.7K
macOS
1.9K
Windows
1.2K
Python Versions
3.12
53.1%
160.3K
3.11
20.1%
60.7K
3.13
12.6%
38.0K
3.10
9.0%
27.1K
3.14
5.3%
15.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
307.8K
US
2.
IE
8.0K
IE
3.
DE
5.6K
DE
4.
BR
2.9K
BR
5.
GB
2.8K
GB
6.
SG
1.8K
SG
7.
KR
1.5K
KR
8.
CA
1.3K
CA
9.
JP
1.2K
JP
10.
IN
1.1K
IN
Dependencies
1
Used By
25
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
February 23, 2016
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.18.1
Total Releases
25
Contributors
24
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh