No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
faker has 76.6M monthly downloads and 19K GitHub stars. Version 40.28.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2010.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is built on top of tzdata. It is used by 1,056 tracked packages, including factory-boy, polyfactory and openmed.
GitHub topics include fake, testing and dataset.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
89
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
76,569,131
•
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
76,569,131
Stars
19,292
Stars per 1k downloads
0.25
•
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
2,369,559
Month daily avg
2,552,304
Momentum
-7.2%
((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
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
5 days ago
Total releases
493
Releases/year
31.7
•
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
607
Monthly downloads
76,569,131
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
65
Issue Burden
0.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.9%
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
1.2M
Windows
22.5K
macOS
13.4K
Python Versions
3.12
31.6%
351.2K
3.11
23.4%
259.3K
3.13
19.0%
211.1K
3.10
16.6%
183.7K
3.14
9.4%
104.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
856.1K
US
2.
FR
107.5K
FR
3.
DE
35.6K
DE
4.
IE
29.8K
IE
5.
NL
28.9K
NL
6.
GB
21.4K
GB
7.
BR
18.3K
BR
8.
SG
17.7K
SG
9.
AU
12.6K
AU
10.
JP
10.1K
JP
Used By
1056
- factory-boy
- polyfactory
- openmed
- jsf
- faker-enum
- streamlit-faker
- rdt
- data-designer-engine
- llm-guard
- robotframework-faker
- snowfakery
- dazzle-dsl
- faker-edu
- letta
- guardrails-ai
- pydantic-factories
- autofaker
- forecasting-tools
- pyspark-data-sources
- cumulusci
- rwslib
- howso-engine
- langroid
- meutils
- letta-nightly
- nemo-safe-synthesizer
- mage-ai
- meltano-map-transform
- dallinger
- postal-address
- django-learngual
- generalmanager
- invenio-rdm-records
- backend-ai-client
- marqeta
- supabase-pydantic
- django-cfg
- fuzzydata
- backend-ai-test
- endoreg-db
- guidellm
- scalekit-sdk-python
- faker-biology
- toolium
- browsergym-workarena
- faker-file
- weaviate-cli
- django-scrubber
- django-hattori
- faker-crypto
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
December 23, 2010
Last Release
6 days ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
40.28.1
Total Releases
493
Contributors
607
Open PRs
24
Archived
No
Author
joke2k
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