PyRank
matplotlib

cycler

cycler: composable cycles
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

cycler has 189.5M monthly downloads and 81 GitHub stars. Version 0.12.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2016.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2023.

It is used by 757 tracked packages, including matplotlib, roboflow and vnstock-ezchart.

Downloads
Day
5.2M
Week
39.2M
Month
189.5M
Stars
81
Forks
52
Issues
7
Version
0.12.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
44
Adoption
60
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
494 days ago
Monthly downloads
189,451,427
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
189,451,427
Stars
81
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
5,605,851
Month daily avg
6,315,048
Momentum
-11.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
Not specified
• 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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
1004 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
0.4
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
56
Monthly downloads
189,451,427
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
71
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
107.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
509d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.4M
Windows 162.8K
macOS 66.5K

Python Versions

3.12
29.7% 846.9K
3.11
22.7% 646.6K
3.10
22.3% 636.0K
3.13
13.8% 393.0K
3.9
11.5% 326.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.8M
2. SG SG
122.2K
3. DE DE
96.6K
4. IE IE
79.5K
5. IN IN
62.9K
6. JP JP
50.7K
7. NL NL
49.6K
8. GB GB
46.8K
9. CN CN
43.9K
10. KR KR
33.0K

Package Information

License
Unknown
First Release
February 16, 2016
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.12.1
Total Releases
4
Contributors
56
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
cycle kwargs
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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