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clevercsv

CleverCSV is a Python package for handling messy CSV files. It provides a drop-in replacement for the builtin CSV module with improved dialect detection, and comes with a handy command line application for working with CSV files.
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clevercsv has 476K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.8.5 supports Python 3.9.0+, first published in 2019.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of chardet, packaging and regex. It is used by 14 tracked packages, including codemie-tools, anyparse-python and smjournal.

GitHub topics include csv, csv-reader and csv-format.

Downloads
Day
12.9K
Week
106.4K
Month
475.7K
Stars
1.3K
Forks
82
Issues
9
Version
0.8.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
62
Adoption
66
Community
45
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
475,703
• 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
475,703
Stars
1,328
Stars per 1k downloads
2.79
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
15,195
Month daily avg
15,857
Momentum
-4.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
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
MIT
• 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
56 days ago
Total releases
51
Releases/year
7.1
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
29
Monthly downloads
475,703
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
51
 
Issue Burden
6.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 5.6K
Windows 1.5K
macOS 211

Python Versions

3.12
59.9% 4.3K
3.13
16.5% 1.2K
3.11
11.0% 795
3.10
8.4% 606
3.14
4.2% 301

Top Countries

1. US US
5.9K
2. CN CN
1.0K
3. ID ID
781
4. IN IN
362
5. SG SG
326
6. NL NL
235
7. IE IE
88
8. BR BR
85
9. GB GB
58
10. HK HK
43

Dependencies

3
16 optional dependencies

Used By

14

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
April 29, 2019
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
0.8.5
Total Releases
51
Contributors
29
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
csv
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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