PyRank
TeamMsgExtractor

extract-msg

Extracts emails and attachments saved in Microsoft Outlook's .msg files
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

extract-msg has 5.6M monthly downloads and 847 GitHub stars. Version 0.55.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2018.

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

It is used by 54 tracked packages, including textract, rtfparse and textract-py3.

Downloads
Day
184.5K
Week
1.3M
Month
5.6M
Stars
847
Forks
186
Issues
26
Version
0.55.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
63
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
328 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,634,238
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
5,634,238
Stars
847
Stars per 1k downloads
0.15
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
189,223
Month daily avg
187,808
Momentum
+0.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
GPL
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
328 days ago
Total releases
128
Releases/year
16.9
• 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
22
Monthly downloads
5,634,238
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
59
 
Issue Burden
30.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.8%
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 62.5K
Windows 3.5K
macOS 688

Python Versions

3.12
51.1% 32.9K
3.11
19.1% 12.3K
3.10
13.4% 8.6K
3.13
12.0% 7.7K
3.14
4.5% 2.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
49.7K
2. DE DE
3.3K
3. NL NL
2.2K
4. CN CN
2.1K
5. SG SG
1.2K
6. IE IE
1.1K
7. AU AU
882
8. IN IN
774
9. GB GB
759
10. FI FI
748

Package Information

License
GPL
First Release
December 5, 2018
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
0.55.0
Total Releases
128
Contributors
22
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Destiny Peterson & Matthew Walker
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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