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pyscaffold

configupdater

🌴 Parser like ConfigParser but for updating configuration files
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

configupdater has 5.9M monthly downloads and 75 GitHub stars. Version 3.2 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2018.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2023.

It is used by 31 tracked packages, including pyscaffold, ggshield and config-formatter.

GitHub topics include configuration-files and updating.

Downloads
Day
184.4K
Week
1.3M
Month
5.9M
Stars
75
Forks
10
Issues
8
Version
3.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
36
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
90 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,922,775
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
5,922,775
Stars
75
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
190,233
Month daily avg
197,426
Momentum
-3.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
953 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
3.1
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
9
Monthly downloads
5,922,775
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
36
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
90.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
862d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 137.2K
macOS 511
Windows 479

Python Versions

3.12
25.9% 34.5K
3.10
24.2% 32.2K
3.7
23.3% 31.0K
3.11
22.6% 30.1K
3.9
4.1% 5.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
91.7K
2. IE IE
13.2K
3. SG SG
6.0K
4. KR KR
5.1K
5. NL NL
3.9K
6. AU AU
3.0K
7. IN IN
1.9K
8. IL IL
1.9K
9. DE DE
1.6K
10. JP JP
1.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 22, 2018
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
3.2
Total Releases
25
Contributors
9
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Florian Wilhelm
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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