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django-autocomplete-light

A fresh approach to autocomplete implementations, specially for Django.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

django-autocomplete-light has 668K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 4.0.3 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2012.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of django. It is used by 46 tracked packages, including simo, geonode and apis-core-rdf.

GitHub topics include django and autocomplete.

Downloads
Day
24.2K
Week
152.1K
Month
667.7K
Stars
1.9K
Forks
464
Issues
212
Version
4.0.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
72
Adoption
68
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
667,722
• 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
667,722
Stars
1,872
Stars per 1k downloads
2.80
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
21,725
Month daily avg
22,257
Momentum
-2.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
19 days ago
Total releases
233
Releases/year
16.4
• 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
210
Monthly downloads
667,722
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
64
 
Issue Burden
113.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
45.3%
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 6.7K
Windows 26
macOS 15

Python Versions

3.11
36.9% 1.9K
3.13
23.3% 1.2K
3.12
22.9% 1.2K
3.14
13.1% 689
3.10
3.9% 203

Top Countries

1. US US
5.0K
2. NL NL
318
3. DE DE
294
4. SG SG
175
5. FR FR
163
6. GB GB
95
7. BE BE
85
8. IE IE
82
9. AT AT
79
10. RU RU
51
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 10, 2012
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.0.3
Total Releases
233
Contributors
210
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
django autocomplete
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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