No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
datefinder has 3.9M monthly downloads and 663 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2016.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of python-dateutil, pytz and regex. It is used by 30 tracked packages, including pycti, pyoaev and t-ocr.
GitHub topics include datetime, parser and nlp.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
61
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
103 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,878,172
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
3,878,172
Stars
663
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
128,366
Month daily avg
129,272
Momentum
-0.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
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
103 days ago
Total releases
11
Releases/year
1.0
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
16
Monthly downloads
3,878,172
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
46
Issue Burden
9.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.4%
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
116.3K
Windows
89
macOS
23
Python Versions
3.10
61.4%
70.0K
3.12
28.3%
32.2K
3.11
5.9%
6.7K
3.8
3.5%
3.9K
3.14
1.0%
1.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
107.2K
US
2.
NL
3.3K
NL
3.
CA
3.2K
CA
4.
SG
1.1K
SG
5.
DE
664
DE
6.
BR
295
BR
7.
SA
84
SA
8.
FR
74
FR
9.
IE
57
IE
10.
AT
51
AT
Used By
30
- pycti
- pyoaev
- t-ocr
- sportsball
- jupyter-jsc-custom
- inspire-query-parser
- doc-curation
- pvops
- pyobas
- epstein-files
- doculyzer
- multi-med-image-ml
- pyfunc2
- py2nut
- elemeta
- journ4list
- arxiv-astro-summarizer
- pyemr
- framler
- keephq
- apartments
- bf-nlu-banki
- wiki-music
- bf-nlu
- demon-connect
- textunitlib
- crawlerbox
- rsysdatetime01
- matchtools
- rsysdatetime02
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 2, 2016
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
11
Contributors
16
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
cp39
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh