Monthly downloads
2.7M
Weekly downloads
622.2K
GitHub stars
236
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=2.6, <3
Licence
PSF
Last Release
3 years ago
Author
Brian Quinlan
First Release
June 4, 2009
Total Releases
24
Python Versions
2.6
2.7
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
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
50
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1445 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,667,872
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
2,667,872
Stars
236
Stars per 1k downloads
0.09
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
88,882
Month daily avg
88,929
Momentum
-0.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.6, <3
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
PSF
•
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
1445 days ago
Total releases
24
Releases/year
1.4
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
14
Monthly downloads
2,667,872
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
46
Issue Burden
16.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
64.7K
Windows
220
macOS
29
Python Versions
2.7
75.8%
46.9K
3.10
8.4%
5.2K
3.12
7.2%
4.5K
3.9
4.7%
2.9K
3.7
3.8%
2.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
54.4K
US
2.
SG
4.7K
SG
3.
DE
2.1K
DE
4.
IE
759
IE
5.
AU
640
AU
6.
IN
522
IN
7.
RU
452
RU
8.
ID
429
ID
9.
HU
334
HU
10.
FR
289
FR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
169
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Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh