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ageitgey

face-recognition

The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
93.0K
Weekly downloads
22.7K
GitHub stars
56.8K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
1.3.0
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
MIT license
Last Release
6 years ago
Author
Adam Geitgey
First Release
March 4, 2017
Total Releases
21
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
96
Adoption
69
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
113 days ago
Monthly downloads
92,992
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
92,992
Stars
56,818
Stars per 1k downloads
611.00
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
3,239
Month daily avg
3,100
Momentum
+4.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
2429 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
92,992
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
74
 
Issue Burden
13.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2316d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.2K
Windows 356
macOS 86

Python Versions

3.10
51.7% 1.2K
3.12
20.1% 486
3.11
12.9% 313
3.13
8.7% 210
3.14
6.6% 160

Top Countries

1. TH TH
1.0K
2. US US
836
3. IN IN
158
4. SG SG
76
5. CN CN
57
6. ID ID
47
7. DE DE
38
8. NL NL
32
9. HK HK
31
10. TW TW
29

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

5

Used By

57
View all 57 dependents

Repository details

Forks
13.7K
Issues
775
Last Commit
3 months ago
Contributors
52
Open PRs
57
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
face_recognition
Sources and methodology