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darkdetect

Detect OS Dark Mode from Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

darkdetect has 1.3M monthly downloads and 224 GitHub stars. Version 0.8.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2019.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2022.

It is used by 124 tracked packages, including customtkinter, pyqtdarktheme and pyside6-fluent-widgets.

GitHub topics include windows-10, ubuntu and dark-theme.

Downloads
Day
44.6K
Week
301.5K
Month
1.3M
Stars
224
Forks
20
Issues
10
Version
0.8.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
25
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1298 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,303,740
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
1,303,740
Stars
224
Stars per 1k downloads
0.17
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
43,069
Month daily avg
43,458
Momentum
-0.9%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
1298 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
1.7
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
1,303,740
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
41
 
Issue Burden
44.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
45.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Windows 17.6K
Linux 13.6K
macOS 1.8K

Python Versions

3.12
35.4% 11.3K
3.14
23.3% 7.4K
3.11
17.5% 5.6K
3.13
17.3% 5.5K
3.10
6.5% 2.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
15.3K
2. IN IN
1.8K
3. CN CN
1.3K
4. BR BR
1.1K
5. DE DE
789
6. JP JP
752
7. TR TR
668
8. SG SG
624
9. VN VN
586
10. HK HK
508
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
May 13, 2019
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
0.8.0
Total Releases
12
Contributors
9
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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