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fastexcel

A fast excel reader for Rust and Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

fastexcel has 3.1M monthly downloads and 236 GitHub stars. Version 0.20.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2022.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 111 tracked packages, including ert, datagrunt and pyield.

GitHub topics include arrow, pandas and polars.

Downloads
Day
103.0K
Week
648.5K
Month
3.1M
Stars
236
Forks
20
Issues
18
Version
0.20.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
46
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,090,755
• 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
3,090,755
Stars
236
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
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
92,643
Month daily avg
103,025
Momentum
-10.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
63 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
9.9
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
33
Monthly downloads
3,090,755
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
49
 
Issue Burden
76.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
165.0%
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 60.1K
Windows 559
macOS 436

Python Versions

3.14
36.8% 21.1K
3.12
28.9% 16.5K
3.11
17.5% 10.0K
3.13
9.3% 5.4K
3.9
7.4% 4.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
43.4K
2. DE DE
4.9K
3. NL NL
3.6K
4. SG SG
2.1K
5. BE BE
1.1K
6. HK HK
1.1K
7. IE IE
777
8. GB GB
747
9. CA CA
603
10. AE AE
594
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
October 6, 2022
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
0.20.2
Total Releases
37
Contributors
33
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp314 cp38 cp39 pp310 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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