PyRank
nexB

extractcode

A mostly universal file extraction library and CLI tool to extract almost any archive in a reasonably safe way on Linux, macOS and Windows.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Downloads
Day
3.7K
Week
26.5K
Month
102.9K
Stars
39
Forks
23
Issues
43
Version
31.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
36
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
49 days ago
Monthly downloads
102,851
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
102,851
Stars
39
Stars per 1k downloads
0.38
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
3,779
Month daily avg
3,428
Momentum
+10.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
Apache-2.0
• 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
49 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
1.7
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
26
Monthly downloads
102,851
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
70
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
113.0%
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 1.3K
Windows 20
macOS 11

Python Versions

3.12
45.7% 558
3.14
31.2% 381
3.11
8.2% 100
3.13
7.5% 92
3.10
7.4% 90

Top Countries

1. US US
1.2K
2. DE DE
44
3. SE SE
36
4. FR FR
32
5. NL NL
23
6. IN IN
14
7. GB GB
13
8. SG SG
12
9. ES ES
10
10. PL PL
10

Dependencies

4
21 optional dependencies

Used By

3
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
October 6, 2020
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
31.1.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
26
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
nexB. Inc. and others
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
utilities archive extraction libarchive 7zip 7z gzip bzip2 xz lzma lz4 lzip zstd Z tar xar ar cpio vmdk qcow2 vhd iso deb cab rpm patch scancode-toolkit
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

Links