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feature-engine

feature-engine

Feature engineering and selection open-source Python library compatible with sklearn.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

feature-engine has 319K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.9.4 supports Python 3.9.0+, first published in 2018.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.

It is built on top of numpy, pandas and scikit-learn. It is used by 59 tracked packages, including geocif, spotforecast2-safe and spotforecast2.

GitHub topics include machine-learning, data-science and scikit-learn.

Downloads
Day
12.5K
Week
65.7K
Month
318.9K
Stars
2.3K
Forks
348
Issues
65
Version
1.9.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
72
Adoption
55
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
37 days ago
Monthly downloads
318,898
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
318,898
Stars
2,253
Stars per 1k downloads
7.06
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
9,390
Month daily avg
10,630
Momentum
-11.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
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
BSD 3 clause
• 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
130 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
6.2
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
61
Monthly downloads
318,898
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
77
 
Issue Burden
28.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
5.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
92d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 6.6K
Windows 43
macOS 15

Python Versions

3.11
54.4% 3.5K
3.12
24.6% 1.6K
3.10
17.8% 1.1K
3.14
1.7% 110
3.9
1.5% 99

Top Countries

1. US US
3.4K
2. IE IE
2.5K
3. DE DE
439
4. CH CH
110
5. BR BR
86
6. NL NL
49
7. SG SG
40
8. IN IN
26
9. GB GB
13
10. AU AU
12
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD 3 clause
First Release
December 31, 2018
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.9.4
Total Releases
47
Contributors
61
Open PRs
23
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9 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

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