No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
captcha has 380K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.7.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2025.
It is built on top of pillow. It is used by 37 tracked packages, including streamlit-authenticator, tier2 and flask-session-captcha.
GitHub topics include captcha.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 234 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
65
Adoption
65
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
259 days ago
Monthly downloads
380,118
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
380,118
Stars
1,092
Stars per 1k downloads
2.87
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
12,169
Month daily avg
12,671
Momentum
-4.0%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
493 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
1.1
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
19
Monthly downloads
380,118
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
52
Issue Burden
2.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
234d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
6.8K
Windows
256
macOS
86
Python Versions
3.11
39.0%
2.6K
3.12
30.5%
2.1K
3.14
15.1%
1.0K
3.13
8.9%
599
3.10
6.5%
435
Top Countries
1.
US
5.3K
US
2.
IN
763
IN
3.
DE
227
DE
4.
SG
167
SG
5.
CN
128
CN
6.
NL
69
NL
7.
JP
66
JP
8.
FR
43
FR
9.
FI
41
FI
10.
HK
33
HK
Dependencies
1
Used By
37
- streamlit-authenticator
- tier2
- flask-session-captcha
- reykit
- flask-captchaify
- django-form-builder
- indico
- swarmauri-tool-captchagenerator
- sanic-security
- xtcryptosignals
- swarmauri-community
- xl-router
- quark-py
- flask-captcha2
- vibeflux
- reglow
- rethink-note
- tn3w-utils
- flask-authgenius
- utils4py
- backupbackup
- typeidea-czz
- hacktcha
- pypowerprojects
- dost
- flask-includes-captcha
- yacscript
- flask-tjfu-captcha
- djangorestframework-simplejwt-captcha2
- syngo
- linknote
- uboxadmin
- lite-captcha
- pycaptchagen
- imcore
- storecognition
- flask-ddosify
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
November 27, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
0.7.1
Total Releases
13
Contributors
19
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh