PyRank
josiahcarlson

crontab

Parse and use crontab schedules in Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

crontab has 1.5M monthly downloads and 336 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.5, first published in 2013.

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

It is used by 41 tracked packages, including asknews, streaq and yacron2.

Downloads
Day
26.3K
Week
254.2K
Month
1.5M
Stars
336
Forks
60
Issues
1
Version
1.0.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
53
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
361 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,503,916
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
1,503,916
Stars
336
Stars per 1k downloads
0.22
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
36,321
Month daily avg
50,131
Momentum
-27.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
GNU LGPL v2.1
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
362 days ago
Total releases
30
Releases/year
2.3
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
1,503,916
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
42
 
Issue Burden
3.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.7%
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 13.7K
Windows 89
macOS 48

Python Versions

3.12
50.3% 6.1K
3.13
15.0% 1.8K
3.11
13.6% 1.6K
3.14
12.7% 1.5K
3.10
8.4% 1.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
10.8K
2. DE DE
972
3. SG SG
234
4. NL NL
227
5. GB GB
224
6. CZ CZ
209
7. IN IN
208
8. IT IT
96
9. FR FR
88
10. FI FI
87

Package Information

License
GNU LGPL v2.1
First Release
June 20, 2013
Last Release
12 months ago
Last Commit
12 months ago
Latest Version
1.0.5
Total Releases
30
Contributors
10
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Josiah Carlson
Python Versions
2.7 3.2 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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