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cairocffi

CFFI-based cairo bindings for Python.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

cairocffi has 14.7M monthly downloads and 212 GitHub stars. Version 1.7.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2024.

It is built on top of cffi. It is used by 68 tracked packages, including cairosvg, docassemble-base and docassemble-webapp.

GitHub topics include cairo, cffi and binding.

Downloads
Day
485.5K
Week
3.4M
Month
14.7M
Stars
212
Forks
53
Issues
17
Version
1.7.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
49
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
210 days ago
Monthly downloads
14,708,176
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
14,708,176
Stars
212
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
492,762
Month daily avg
490,273
Momentum
+0.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
BSD 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
748 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.6
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
55
Monthly downloads
14,708,176
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
61
 
Issue Burden
80.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
103.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
538d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 292.9K
Windows 7.9K
macOS 4.2K

Python Versions

3.12
67.9% 202.4K
3.10
11.7% 34.9K
3.11
10.6% 31.6K
3.13
6.2% 18.6K
3.14
3.5% 10.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
253.3K
2. SG SG
5.5K
3. CN CN
4.3K
4. DE DE
4.0K
5. IN IN
2.7K
6. IE IE
2.4K
7. BR BR
2.4K
8. GB GB
2.4K
9. JP JP
2.1K
10. FR FR
2.0K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
January 7, 2013
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
1.7.1
Total Releases
35
Contributors
55
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
cairo cffi binding
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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