PyRank
pycqa

flake8

flake8 is a python tool that glues together pycodestyle, pyflakes, mccabe, and third-party plugins to check the style and quality of some python code.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
2.1M
Week
12.6M
Month
54.3M
Stars
3.8K
Forks
346
Issues
23
Version
7.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
75
Adoption
70
Community
60
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
54,310,984
• 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
54,310,984
Stars
3,791
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
• 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
1,805,354
Month daily avg
1,810,366
Momentum
-0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
• 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
335 days ago
Total releases
94
Releases/year
6.0
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
178
Monthly downloads
54,310,984
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
53
 
Issue Burden
6.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
51.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
325d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 932.0K
Windows 19.6K
macOS 12.1K

Python Versions

3.12
35.3% 286.2K
3.11
25.4% 206.0K
3.13
18.6% 150.9K
3.10
14.5% 117.8K
3.14
6.2% 50.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
738.7K
2. IE IE
44.2K
3. DE DE
37.5K
4. SG SG
27.5K
5. GB GB
27.5K
6. NL NL
19.8K
7. JP JP
10.9K
8. AU AU
7.2K
9. IN IN
6.7K
10. FR FR
6.0K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 12, 2010
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
7.3.0
Total Releases
94
Contributors
178
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Tarek Ziade
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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