No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
face has 20.4M monthly downloads and 24 GitHub stars. Version 26.0.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2018.
It is actively maintained, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of boltons. It is used by 8 tracked packages, including pocket-protector, goodturn and emp-utl.
GitHub topics include cli and console.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 3 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
29
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,381,647
•
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
20,381,647
Stars
24
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
•
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
662,628
Month daily avg
679,388
Momentum
-2.5%
((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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
19 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
1.6
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
3
Monthly downloads
20,381,647
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
47
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
369.4K
macOS
1.8K
Windows
1.4K
Python Versions
3.12
47.0%
171.6K
3.10
25.6%
93.5K
3.13
10.4%
37.9K
3.11
9.7%
35.5K
3.14
7.2%
26.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
341.7K
US
2.
DE
6.5K
DE
3.
IE
4.6K
IE
4.
GB
2.6K
GB
5.
SG
1.9K
SG
6.
NL
1.8K
NL
7.
FR
1.4K
FR
8.
FI
1.3K
FI
9.
IN
1.2K
IN
10.
JP
1.1K
JP
Dependencies
1
- boltons >=20.0.0
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
February 19, 2018
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
26.0.1
Total Releases
13
Contributors
3
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh