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ghostscript

Interface to the Ghostscript C-API, both high- and low-level, based on ctypes
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
341.3K
Weekly downloads
85.2K
GitHub stars
-

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
0.8.1
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
GPL-3.0-or-later
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
Hartmut Goebel
First Release
August 6, 2010
Total Releases
10
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
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

What's this?
Score based on PyPI data only - no linked source repository
N/A
Health Score
Not available
requires GitHub data
How the maintenance status was determined
Last release
506 days ago
Monthly downloads
341,347
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
341,347
Stars
Unknown
Stars per 1k downloads
—
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
No star data — can't compute stars-to-downloads ratio.
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
12,164
Month daily avg
11,378
Momentum
+6.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
GPL-3.0-or-later
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
506 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
0.6
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
Unknown
Monthly downloads
341,347
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
Contributor count is missing — this usually indicates the package has no linked GitHub repository.
Engagement
0
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
-
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
-
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.5K
Windows 33
macOS 14

Python Versions

3.12
71.1% 5.2K
3.11
11.2% 819
3.14
9.9% 725
3.13
6.5% 473
3.10
1.4% 100

Top Countries

1. SE SE
4.8K
2. US US
2.0K
3. NL NL
282
4. BR BR
182
5. CN CN
78
6. BE BE
29
7. SG SG
28
8. CA CA
27
9. DE DE
23
10. ES ES
19

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
No dependencies

Used By

17
View all 17 dependents

Repository details

Forks
-
Issues
-
Last Commit
-
Contributors
-
Open PRs
-
Archived
-

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
Ghostscript PDF Postscript
Sources and methodology