PyRank
django

channels-redis

Redis channel layer backend for Django Channels
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

channels-redis has 4.5M monthly downloads and 646 GitHub stars. Version 4.3.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2018.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2025.

It is built on top of asgiref, channels and msgpack. It is used by 64 tracked packages, including lex-app, open-swarm and grooveshop-django-api.

Downloads
Day
149.0K
Week
1.0M
Month
4.5M
Stars
646
Forks
198
Issues
39
Version
4.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
62
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
272 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,507,147
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
4,507,147
Stars
646
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
144,062
Month daily avg
150,238
Momentum
-4.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
• 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
350 days ago
Total releases
30
Releases/year
3.6
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
75
Monthly downloads
4,507,147
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
77
 
Issue Burden
60.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
37.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
77d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 87.8K
Windows 577
macOS 302

Python Versions

3.12
45.5% 37.4K
3.11
23.5% 19.3K
3.13
15.8% 12.9K
3.14
10.5% 8.6K
3.9
4.7% 3.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
70.5K
2. DE DE
2.5K
3. IE IE
2.5K
4. IN IN
1.6K
5. NL NL
1.3K
6. GB GB
1.2K
7. BR BR
1.1K
8. FR FR
1.1K
9. RU RU
1.1K
10. SG SG
769

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
February 2, 2018
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
4.3.0
Total Releases
30
Contributors
75
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Django Software Foundation
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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