No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
exifread has 1.1M monthly downloads and 956 GitHub stars. Version 3.5.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is used by 116 tracked packages, including setiastrosuitepro, lektor and gllm-multimodal-binary.
GitHub topics include exif, jpeg and tiff.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 290 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
26 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,116,945
•
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
1,116,945
Stars
956
Stars per 1k downloads
0.86
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
27,952
Month daily avg
37,232
Momentum
-24.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
BSD 3-Clause 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
317 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
2.1
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
62
Monthly downloads
1,116,945
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
49.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
290d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
34.4K
Windows
979
macOS
395
Python Versions
3.14
54.8%
19.4K
3.11
25.4%
9.0K
3.12
11.8%
4.2K
3.13
4.2%
1.5K
3.10
3.9%
1.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
32.3K
US
2.
DE
660
DE
3.
IN
309
IN
4.
NL
292
NL
5.
GB
269
GB
6.
SG
239
SG
7.
FR
198
FR
8.
CN
179
CN
9.
CA
151
CA
10.
FI
111
FI
Dependencies
0
4 optional dependencies
- build[dev]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pylint[dev]
- pytest[test]
Used By
116
- setiastrosuitepro
- lektor
- gllm-multimodal-binary
- geo-activity-playground
- boris-behav-obs
- stegoveritas
- django-photologue
- pyimgtag
- cellects
- spiderfoot-ng
- phenotypic
- mapillary-tools
- photo-composition-designer
- datalad-deprecated
- 01memories
- srxy
- organize-tool
- rpi-ctt
- srforge
- photos-drive
- cryptonets-python-sdk
- scivision
- visual-cataloguer
- rawhandler
- calculation-mapilio
- photo-quality-analyzer-core
- bma-client-lib
- perseus-core-library
- camera2geo
- deep-image-matching
- joutil
- mapilio-kit
- photonamer
- pyguymer3
- photo-organizer
- photoassistant
- picture-of-the-day
- photofind
- django-middleware-fileuploadvalidation
- hdrutils
- dpm-tools
- majordome
- photorec-sorter
- imagesort
- magic-lantern
- exifplus
- photoidmagick
- imageupscaler
- procastro
- photocopy
Package Information
License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
July 27, 2013
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.5.1
Total Releases
27
Contributors
62
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Ianaré Sévi
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh