datasette has 149K monthly downloads and 11K GitHub stars. Version 0.65.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is built on top of aiofiles, asgi-csrf and asgiref. It is used by 218 tracked packages, including datasette-template-sql, datasette-acl and datasette-user-profiles.

GitHub topics include sqlite, datasets and json.

Downloads
Day
4.8K
Week
30.9K
Month
148.7K
Stars
11.3K
Forks
868
Issues
586
Version
0.65.2

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
86
Adoption
51
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
0 days ago
Monthly downloads
148,665
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
148,665
Stars
11,265
Stars per 1k downloads
75.77
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
4,415
Month daily avg
4,956
Momentum
-10.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
Apache License, Version 2.0
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
243 days ago
Total releases
174
Releases/year
20.1
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
87
Monthly downloads
148,665
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
80
 
Issue Burden
52.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
243d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.8K
macOS 75
Windows 42

Python Versions

3.13
27.6% 793
3.12
26.0% 746
3.11
20.6% 593
3.10
20.1% 578
3.14
5.6% 162

Top Countries

1. US US
2.8K
2. DE DE
95
3. GB GB
78
4. IL IL
53
5. CN CN
40
6. FR FR
37
7. IN IN
37
8. SE SE
34
9. SG SG
32
10. CA CA
25

Dependencies

20
15 optional dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache License, Version 2.0
First Release
November 13, 2017
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
4 hr ago
Latest Version
0.65.2
Total Releases
174
Contributors
87
Open PRs
95
Archived
No
Author
Simon Willison
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh