No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
dlib-bin has 2.2M monthly downloads and 17 GitHub stars. Version 20.0.1, first published in 2020.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is used by 2 tracked packages, including visionlock and pwgazer.
GitHub topics include dlib, dlib-face-detection and pypi-package.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 3 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
45
Popularity
26
Adoption
100
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
98 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,206,170
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
2,206,170
Stars
17
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
281,179
Month daily avg
73,539
Momentum
+282.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Boost 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
98 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
1.6
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
3
Monthly downloads
2,206,170
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
35
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.9%
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
889
Windows
389
macOS
39
Python Versions
3.14
27.8%
359
3.10
24.4%
316
3.11
17.7%
229
3.12
16.3%
211
3.13
13.8%
178
Top Countries
1.
US
311.7K
US
2.
DK
82.3K
DK
3.
SE
14.6K
SE
4.
DE
168
DE
5.
IN
113
IN
6.
CN
104
CN
7.
IT
34
IT
8.
JP
24
JP
9.
HK
13
HK
10.
IE
12
IE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
2
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Boost Software License
First Release
September 19, 2020
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
20.0.1
Total Releases
9
Contributors
3
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Davis King
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh