PyRank
Yelp

detect-secrets

An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing secrets in code.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

detect-secrets has 6M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 1.5.0, first published in 2018.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2024.

It is built on top of pyyaml and requests. It is used by 82 tracked packages, including snyk-agent-scan, repomix and entelligence-cli.

Downloads
Day
227.8K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.0M
Stars
4.6K
Forks
554
Issues
97
Version
1.5.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
78
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
95 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,988,875
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
5,988,875
Stars
4,583
Stars per 1k downloads
0.77
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
198,827
Month daily avg
199,629
Momentum
-0.4%
((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
Apache Software License
• 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
791 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
4.6
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
163
Monthly downloads
5,988,875
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
67
 
Issue Burden
21.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
695d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 145.0K
Windows 1.6K
macOS 910

Python Versions

3.12
37.4% 53.4K
3.13
36.8% 52.5K
3.11
18.4% 26.3K
3.14
5.6% 8.0K
3.10
1.8% 2.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
98.2K
2. FI FI
34.9K
3. GB GB
3.4K
4. DE DE
2.4K
5. SG SG
1.2K
6. NL NL
978
7. IE IE
789
8. PL PL
713
9. BE BE
667
10. IN IN
647

Package Information

License
Apache Software License
First Release
April 5, 2018
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
1.5.0
Total Releases
38
Contributors
163
Open PRs
61
Archived
No
Author
Yelp, Inc.
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
secret-management pre-commit security entropy-checks
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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