Monthly downloads
3.4M
Weekly downloads
800.0K
GitHub stars
337
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.7
Licence
BSD License
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Nicolas P. Rougier
First Release
January 30, 2011
Total Releases
34
Python Versions
3
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
55
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
774 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,447,799
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
3,447,799
Stars
337
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
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
114,292
Month daily avg
114,927
Momentum
-0.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD License
•
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
778 days ago
Total releases
34
Releases/year
2.2
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
28
Monthly downloads
3,447,799
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
70
Issue Burden
118.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
104.3K
Windows
5.1K
macOS
2.9K
Python Versions
3.12
66.0%
73.2K
3.13
17.9%
19.8K
3.11
6.9%
7.7K
3.14
6.4%
7.1K
3.10
2.8%
3.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
83.5K
US
2.
HK
11.0K
HK
3.
SG
5.2K
SG
4.
JP
2.0K
JP
5.
AR
1.9K
AR
6.
CN
1.7K
CN
7.
DE
1.3K
DE
8.
GB
691
GB
9.
CA
538
CA
10.
NL
532
NL
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
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