No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
face-recognition has 224K monthly downloads and 57K GitHub stars. Version 1.3.0, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2020.
It is built on top of click, dlib and face-recognition-models. It is used by 59 tracked packages, including idvpackage, vhup and vho.
GitHub topics include machine-learning, face-detection and face-recognition.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 2316 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
96
Adoption
63
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
223,566
•
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
223,566
Stars
56,569
Stars per 1k downloads
253.03
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
6,891
Month daily avg
7,452
Momentum
-7.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT 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
2328 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
2.2
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
52
Monthly downloads
223,566
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
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Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
74
Issue Burden
13.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2316d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.7K
Windows
1.3K
macOS
232
Python Versions
3.10
29.0%
1.5K
3.12
25.3%
1.3K
3.11
17.0%
856
3.13
15.4%
776
3.14
13.2%
663
Top Countries
1.
US
2.1K
US
2.
TH
971
TH
3.
IN
643
IN
4.
BR
206
BR
5.
CN
163
CN
6.
ID
91
ID
7.
DE
88
DE
8.
KH
79
KH
9.
SG
73
SG
10.
NL
71
NL
Dependencies
5
- click >=6.0
- dlib >=19.7
- face-recognition-models >=0.3.0
- numpy
- pillow
Used By
59
- idvpackage
- vhup
- vho
- aelion-vision
- ovos-face-embeddings-plugin
- ezst
- celeb-detector
- face-recognition-service
- face-grouper
- pydp
- face-sort
- smartlocate
- facedb
- visionlock
- face-group
- face-recognition-atd
- face-comparer
- faceblur
- civic2verifierrr
- falconsearch
- golden-eagle
- facereg
- photoidmagick
- face-sdlr
- sam-faces
- aspectreat
- face-recognition-demo
- emotion-framework
- martinapi
- face-genius
- face-mask
- capa-sdk
- vhox
- face-recognition-api
- ravestate
- face-authenticator
- naun
- faceauthx
- facetracker
- face-auth
- anonphoto
- gimpify-watxaut
- face-similarity
- instacrawl
- theblinktest
- personacipher
- ghostsignal
- selfdiffusion
- ialab-core
- omagent-core
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT license
First Release
March 4, 2017
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.3.0
Total Releases
21
Contributors
52
Open PRs
56
Archived
No
Author
Adam Geitgey
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh