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espressif

esptool

Serial utility for flashing, provisioning, and interacting with Espressif SoCs
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
64.0K
Week
274.7K
Month
1.2M
Stars
6.3K
Forks
1.5K
Issues
14
Version
4.12.dev2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
83
Adoption
70
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,203,615
• 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
1,203,615
Stars
6,326
Stars per 1k downloads
5.26
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
39,248
Month daily avg
40,120
Momentum
-2.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
GPLv2+
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
11 days ago
Total releases
88
Releases/year
8.7
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
132
Monthly downloads
1,203,615
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
2.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.9%
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 23.3K
Windows 3.1K
macOS 1.8K

Python Versions

3.12
43.0% 11.8K
3.10
22.8% 6.2K
3.14
12.4% 3.4K
3.13
11.6% 3.2K
3.11
10.2% 2.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
16.3K
2. DE DE
1.9K
3. CN CN
775
4. PL PL
709
5. FR FR
572
6. NL NL
547
7. GB GB
546
8. IT IT
445
9. CA CA
399
10. ES ES
389

Package Information

License
GPLv2+
First Release
April 21, 2016
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.12.dev2
Total Releases
88
Contributors
132
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Fredrik Ahlberg (themadinventor), Angus Gratton (projectgus), Espressif Systems
Python Versions
3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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