No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
cchardet has 6.5M monthly downloads and 412 GitHub stars. Version 2.1.7, first published in 2013.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a copyleft license, last released in Oct 2020.
It is used by 127 tracked packages, including sportsball, html-to-etree and ebookmaker.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1492 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
53
Adoption
100
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
586 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,491,091
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
6,491,091
Stars
412
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
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
279,419
Month daily avg
216,370
Momentum
+29.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Mozilla Public 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
2078 days ago
Total releases
20
Releases/year
1.5
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
10
Monthly downloads
6,491,091
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
45
Issue Burden
21.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1492d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
262.1K
Windows
83
macOS
25
Python Versions
3.9
97.7%
254.7K
3.7
1.6%
4.1K
3.10
0.3%
699
3.12
0.3%
656
3.6
0.2%
621
Top Countries
1.
US
260.6K
US
2.
DE
501
DE
3.
IE
427
IE
4.
BR
310
BR
5.
SG
281
SG
6.
CN
124
CN
7.
KR
56
KR
8.
GB
55
GB
9.
IN
50
IN
10.
FR
43
FR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
127
- sportsball
- html-to-etree
- ebookmaker
- asciidoxy
- ckanext-versioned-datastore
- cengal
- tomodachi
- vis3
- aiohttp-toolbox
- scales-nlp
- aclients
- yuan-tool
- consoleme
- botty-mcbotface
- gordo-components
- hlm-texts
- aiolambda
- data-dictionary-cui-mapping
- magicgoogle
- data-cleaner
- novelaillmwrapper
- csvapi
- xcat
- perceiver-io
- trollhunter
- pycraigslist
- proxygrab
- aiospider-zly
- ptextpad
- orionx-python-client
- fairy-doc
- moviechat
- pyaiocrawler
- liiatools
- git-ripper
- petropy
- ashttp
- ezbee
- human-lambdas
- appkernel
- aiokraken
- ahttp
- bolsa
- bsmdoc
- base-client-api
- fast-scores
- upoly
- aiowrpr
- apartments
- magicbaidu
Package Information
License
Mozilla Public License
First Release
August 3, 2013
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.1.7
Total Releases
20
Contributors
10
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
PyYoshi
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Wheels
cp27
cp311
cp312
cp34
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh