No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
filetype has 43.7M monthly downloads and 768 GitHub stars. Version 1.2.0, first published in 2016.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2022.
It is used by 600 tracked packages, including langchain-google-genai, llama-index-core and banks.
GitHub topics include magic-numbers, filetype and mime.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 912 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
61
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
430 days ago
Monthly downloads
43,695,966
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
43,695,966
Stars
768
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
•
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
1,332,669
Month daily avg
1,456,532
Momentum
-8.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
1342 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
2.1
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
38
Monthly downloads
43,695,966
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
63
Issue Burden
69.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
912d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
712.6K
Windows
25.5K
macOS
16.4K
Python Versions
3.12
47.5%
347.2K
3.11
18.9%
138.2K
3.13
12.4%
90.3K
3.10
11.8%
86.4K
3.14
9.3%
68.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
609.9K
US
2.
HK
17.0K
HK
3.
IE
12.9K
IE
4.
IN
11.7K
IN
5.
DE
11.6K
DE
6.
JP
11.3K
JP
7.
SG
10.5K
SG
8.
NL
7.2K
NL
9.
FR
6.2K
FR
10.
GB
6.0K
GB
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
600
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- llama-index-core
- banks
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- r2r
- cve-bin-tool
- nomic
- nf-core
- flowtask
- kapitan
- mpcontribs-client
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- podonos
- backgroundremover
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Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
June 19, 2016
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.2.0
Total Releases
21
Contributors
38
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
Tomas Aparicio
Python Versions
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh