No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
fpdf2 has 13.6M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.8.7 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of defusedxml, fonttools and pillow. It is used by 289 tracked packages, including open-webui, ocrmypdf and rpaframework-pdf.
GitHub topics include pdf-generation, pdf and barcode.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 124 days despite active commits
- Moderate bus factor: only 4 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
69
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
13,602,831
•
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
13,602,831
Stars
1,528
Stars per 1k downloads
0.11
•
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
467,465
Month daily avg
453,428
Momentum
+3.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
LGPL-3.0-only
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
129 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
5.7
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
4
Monthly downloads
13,602,831
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
74
Issue Burden
29.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
78.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
124d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
280.6K
Windows
15.2K
macOS
5.8K
Python Versions
3.12
40.6%
119.2K
3.11
21.4%
62.9K
3.10
14.0%
41.1K
3.14
12.3%
36.2K
3.13
11.6%
34.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
185.2K
US
2.
HK
28.1K
HK
3.
SG
27.0K
SG
4.
CN
12.0K
CN
5.
DE
8.7K
DE
6.
IE
6.9K
IE
7.
FI
5.2K
FI
8.
IN
4.7K
IN
9.
NL
2.4K
NL
10.
BR
2.2K
BR
Dependencies
3
- defusedxml
- fonttools >=4.34.0
- pillow !=9.2.*,>=8.3.2
27 optional dependencies
- bandit[dev]
- black[dev]
- brotli[test]
- camelot-py[test]
- endesive[test]
- lxml[docs]
- mkdocs[docs]
- mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin[docs]
- mkdocs-include-markdown-plugin[docs]
- mkdocs-macros-plugin[docs]
- mkdocs-material[docs]
- mkdocs-minify-plugin[docs]
- mkdocs-redirects[docs]
- mkdocs-with-pdf[docs]
- mknotebooks[docs]
- mypy[dev]
- pdoc3[docs]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pylint[dev]
- pyright[dev]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- qrcode[test]
- semgrep[dev]
- tabula-py[test]
- uharfbuzz[test]
- zizmor[dev]
Used By
289
- open-webui
- ocrmypdf
- rpaframework-pdf
- keepercommander
- bec-lib
- brazilfiscalreport
- fintech
- aurapro-ui
- mag-agent
- openschichtplaner5-api
- ojhunt
- morning-paper
- m3-memory
- pyvelm
- docksec
- loop-chat
- django-ledger
- asp-plot
- graftpunk
- dax
- fast-mu-builder
- muxi-runtime
- robusta-api
- llm-evaluation-system
- novelscribe
- pytigon-lib
- byzh-extra
- hledger-textual
- fast-backend-builder
- dbt2pdf
- aga-ai-github-assistant
- leadgen-maps
- patcherctl
- evadex
- word-search-generator
- tgedr-pycommons
- remora-fin
- qlro
- ttd-ledger
- rephorm
- rero-invenio-files
- elenchus
- wasteline
- pdfly
- apple-health-parser
- python-slack-agents
- clawbench-eval
- projectair
- scan4secrets
- rossum-agent
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
LGPL-3.0-only
First Release
May 4, 2017
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
2.8.7
Total Releases
52
Contributors
4
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Author
Olivier PLATHEY, Max, Lucas Cimon (@Lucas-C), Georg Mischler (@gmischler), Anderson Herzogenrath da Costa (@andersonhc)
Python Versions
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