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mherrmann

gitignore-parser

A spec-compliant gitignore parser for Python 3.5+
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

gitignore-parser has 3.4M monthly downloads and 220 GitHub stars. Version 0.1.13, first published in 2018.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is used by 98 tracked packages, including prime, seed-farmer and writer.

GitHub topics include gitignore and gig.

Downloads
Day
78.5K
Week
629.6K
Month
3.4M
Stars
220
Forks
45
Issues
8
Version
0.1.13

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
49
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
315 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,426,145
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
3,426,145
Stars
220
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
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
89,936
Month daily avg
114,205
Momentum
-21.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
315 days ago
Total releases
23
Releases/year
3.0
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
16
Monthly downloads
3,426,145
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
51
 
Issue Burden
36.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 27.0K
Windows 86
macOS 30

Python Versions

3.11
72.5% 19.3K
3.14
12.7% 3.4K
3.12
9.0% 2.4K
3.10
3.1% 834
3.13
2.7% 714

Top Countries

1. US US
24.4K
2. CA CA
1.9K
3. GB GB
353
4. BE BE
134
5. DE DE
111
6. SG SG
73
7. CN CN
50
8. RU RU
48
9. HK HK
37
10. FI FI
25
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
November 24, 2018
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
0.1.13
Total Releases
23
Contributors
16
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Michael Herrmann
Python Versions
3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Keywords
gitignore
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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