No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
feedparser has 15.8M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 6.0.12 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2007.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.
It is built on top of sgmllib3k. It is used by 793 tracked packages, including newspaper3k, openviking and newspaper4k.
GitHub topics include atom, rss and json.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 246 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
72
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
53 days ago
Monthly downloads
15,763,119
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
15,763,119
Stars
2,396
Stars per 1k downloads
0.15
•
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
541,346
Month daily avg
525,437
Momentum
+3.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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-2-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
299 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
1.3
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
48
Monthly downloads
15,763,119
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
64
Issue Burden
35.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
246d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
472.8K
Windows
11.8K
macOS
6.7K
Python Versions
3.11
38.1%
177.1K
3.12
36.8%
171.0K
3.10
9.3%
43.1K
3.13
8.4%
38.9K
3.14
7.4%
34.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
418.5K
US
2.
NL
12.0K
NL
3.
DE
11.5K
DE
4.
SG
6.3K
SG
5.
JP
5.0K
JP
6.
IN
4.4K
IN
7.
CN
3.9K
CN
8.
IE
3.3K
IE
9.
HK
2.3K
HK
10.
CA
2.1K
CA
Dependencies
1
Used By
793
- newspaper3k
- openviking
- newspaper4k
- pyzotero
- gpt-researcher
- gnews
- plone-app-portlets
- lastversion
- jaraco-net
- changedetection-io
- flexget
- juriscraper
- paper-search-mcp
- guanlan
- capcat
- sports-skills
- octoprint
- aicippy
- mcp-simple-arxiv
- tradingview-mcp-server
- pmxbot
- pygooglenews
- slapos-toolbox
- morning-paper
- tradingagents
- sportsball
- sourcedefender
- scitex-scholar
- fudstop
- perceval
- appdaemon
- harness-maker
- privacyidea
- bertrend
- invenio-feeds
- traderbot
- led-ticker-core
- langchain-teddynote
- alexandria-wiki
- integreat-cms
- reader
- ravana-grace
- ovos-ocp-rss-plugin
- grimoirelab
- weeknotebot
- modoboa
- wbnews
- udata-front
- perla-extract
- zyte-spider-templates
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
June 15, 2007
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
6.0.12
Total Releases
25
Contributors
48
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Author
Kurt McKee
Python Versions
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh