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FactoryBoy

factory-boy

A test fixtures replacement for Python
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
20.6M
Weekly downloads
5.1M
GitHub stars
3.8K

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

Package Information

Latest Version
3.3.3
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
MIT
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
Mark Sandstrom
First Release
August 22, 2010
Total Releases
46
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
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
50
Popularity
76
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
305 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,566,140
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
20,566,140
Stars
3,811
Stars per 1k downloads
0.19
• 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
725,099
Month daily avg
685,538
Momentum
+5.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
License categories
License
MIT
• 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
620 days ago
Total releases
46
Releases/year
2.8
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
114
Monthly downloads
20,566,140
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
66
 
Issue Burden
42.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
314d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 326.7K
macOS 2.0K
Windows 1.5K

Python Versions

3.12
42.9% 127.3K
3.13
22.1% 65.6K
3.14
18.4% 54.5K
3.11
13.6% 40.2K
3.10
3.0% 9.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
270.9K
2. DE DE
10.8K
3. CA CA
8.2K
4. JP JP
6.6K
5. IE IE
4.6K
6. FR FR
4.6K
7. NL NL
3.8K
8. IN IN
2.4K
9. GB GB
2.3K
10. SG SG
1.7K

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

1
15 optional dependencies

Used By

107
View all 107 dependents

Repository details

Forks
424
Issues
162
Last Commit
10 months ago
Contributors
114
Open PRs
47
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
factory_boy factory fixtures
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