No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
docformatter has 1.2M monthly downloads and 594 GitHub stars. Version 1.7.8 supports Python <4.0,>=3.10, first published in 2012.
It is stably maintained, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of charset-normalizer. It is used by 21 tracked packages, including pyaud-plugins, python-dev-tools and pyformat.
GitHub topics include formatter, docstring and autoformat.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
58
Adoption
90
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
55 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,197,673
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
1,197,673
Stars
594
Stars per 1k downloads
0.50
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
47,342
Month daily avg
39,922
Momentum
+18.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.10
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
Expat
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
68 days ago
Total releases
65
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
72
Monthly downloads
1,197,673
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
71
Issue Burden
50.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
82.8%
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
24.5K
macOS
4.7K
Windows
64
Python Versions
3.13
27.3%
7.1K
3.12
23.6%
6.1K
3.11
19.9%
5.2K
3.10
16.7%
4.3K
3.14
12.5%
3.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
27.0K
US
2.
SG
384
SG
3.
IE
298
IE
4.
GB
283
GB
5.
IT
268
IT
6.
CN
189
CN
7.
DE
163
DE
8.
HK
149
HK
9.
IN
147
IN
10.
JP
119
JP
Dependencies
1
- charset-normalizer <4.0.0,>=3.0.0
1 optional dependencies
- tomli[tomli]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Expat
First Release
May 27, 2012
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.7.8
Total Releases
65
Contributors
72
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Steven Myint
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh