PyRank
django

channels

Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

channels has 6M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 4.3.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is built on top of asgiref and django. It is used by 180 tracked packages, including channels-redis, djust and django-plotly-dash.

Downloads
Day
184.8K
Week
1.3M
Month
6.0M
Stars
6.4K
Forks
828
Issues
88
Version
4.3.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
82
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
73 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,984,367
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
5,984,367
Stars
6,351
Stars per 1k downloads
1.06
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
187,732
Month daily avg
199,479
Momentum
-5.9%
((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
228 days ago
Total releases
73
Releases/year
6.6
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
277
Monthly downloads
5,984,367
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
88
 
Issue Burden
13.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
21.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
154d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 105.7K
Windows 981
macOS 422

Python Versions

3.12
41.7% 41.4K
3.11
26.5% 26.3K
3.13
15.9% 15.8K
3.14
11.6% 11.5K
3.10
4.3% 4.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
84.5K
2. DE DE
3.3K
3. IE IE
3.2K
4. IN IN
2.2K
5. GB GB
1.4K
6. NL NL
1.4K
7. SG SG
1.3K
8. BR BR
1.2K
9. FR FR
1.2K
10. RU RU
1.0K

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
June 15, 2015
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
4.3.2
Total Releases
73
Contributors
277
Open PRs
33
Archived
No
Author
Django Software Foundation
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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