PyRank
aerkalov

ebooklib

A versatile Python library for EPUB2/EPUB3 manipulation and processing.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

ebooklib has 1.2M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.20 supports Python 2.7+, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Oct 2025.

It is built on top of lxml and six. It is used by 278 tracked packages, including openviking, alpi-agent and pygpt-net.

GitHub topics include epub.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (aerkalov/ebooklib) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
44.1K
Week
325.4K
Month
1.2M
Stars
1.8K
Forks
256
Issues
93
Version
0.20

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
69
Adoption
90
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
230 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,228,200
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
1,228,200
Stars
1,796
Stars per 1k downloads
1.46
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
46,493
Month daily avg
40,940
Momentum
+13.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7
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
GNU Affero General Public 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
253 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
0.6
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
39
Monthly downloads
1,228,200
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
62
 
Issue Burden
51.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.2%
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 28.3K
Windows 6.3K
macOS 4.4K

Python Versions

3.12
51.4% 19.5K
3.13
17.3% 6.5K
3.11
14.3% 5.4K
3.14
11.8% 4.5K
3.10
5.1% 1.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
31.2K
2. CN CN
1.6K
3. SG SG
999
4. DE DE
666
5. HK HK
576
6. JP JP
575
7. IN IN
255
8. GB GB
198
9. RU RU
187
10. FR FR
182
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GNU Affero General Public License
First Release
May 7, 2013
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
0.20
Total Releases
8
Contributors
39
Open PRs
19
Archived
No
Author
Aleksandar Erkalovic
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
ebook epub
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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