No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
extension-helpers has 1.2M monthly downloads and 17 GitHub stars. Version 1.4.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is built on top of setuptools and tomli. It is used by 5 tracked packages, including dearwatson, theprometheus and petrofit.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 386 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
29
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,166,888
•
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
1,166,888
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
40,618
Month daily avg
38,896
Momentum
+4.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=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
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
393 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
1.2
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
35
Monthly downloads
1,166,888
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
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
250.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
386d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
44.0K
macOS
352
Windows
210
Python Versions
3.11
55.2%
24.3K
3.9
34.8%
15.3K
3.10
4.5%
2.0K
3.12
3.6%
1.6K
3.13
1.9%
843
Top Countries
1.
US
26.7K
US
2.
SG
4.2K
SG
3.
DE
2.9K
DE
4.
HK
2.7K
HK
5.
JP
1.4K
JP
6.
RU
1.1K
RU
7.
GB
847
GB
8.
CN
792
CN
9.
FR
679
FR
10.
IE
632
IE
Dependencies
2
- setuptools >=64
- tomli >=1.0.0
7 optional dependencies
- build[test]
- cython[test]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-automodapi[docs]
- wheel[test]
Used By
5
Package Information
License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
December 3, 2019
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
1.4.0
Total Releases
8
Contributors
35
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh