No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
google-re2 has 12.1M monthly downloads and 10K GitHub stars. Version 1.1.20251105 supports Python ~=3.9, first published in 2019.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is used by 49 tracked packages, including cel-python, protovalidate and google-re2-stubs.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
85
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
164 days ago
Monthly downloads
12,053,627
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
12,053,627
Stars
9,718
Stars per 1k downloads
0.81
•
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
433,127
Month daily avg
401,788
Momentum
+7.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
~=3.9
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
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
243 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
3.8
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
70
Monthly downloads
12,053,627
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
65
Issue Burden
3.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
78d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
254.8K
Windows
2.1K
macOS
1.2K
Python Versions
3.11
51.1%
123.8K
3.12
22.9%
55.6K
3.7
10.1%
24.4K
3.10
8.1%
19.5K
3.13
7.8%
18.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
160.2K
US
2.
IE
19.2K
IE
3.
KR
8.5K
KR
4.
DE
7.0K
DE
5.
IN
5.9K
IN
6.
SG
5.2K
SG
7.
GB
5.1K
GB
8.
JP
5.0K
JP
9.
TH
4.9K
TH
10.
CA
4.8K
CA
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
49
- cel-python
- protovalidate
- google-re2-stubs
- proselint
- lightrun
- datahub-agent-context
- pyspiral
- mcp-server-datahub
- spec-kitty-cli
- agent-control-models
- zenzic
- agent-control-evaluators
- mipiti-verify
- agent-control-sdk
- agent-control-server
- json-model-compiler
- flytekitplugins-airflow
- zuul
- psyl
- mitmproxy-mcp
- whats-that-code
- cjwmodule
- py-secret-scan
- persona-core
- astrocrawl
- geniusrise
- readi-privacy
- fortifyroot-ocelle
- datasette-enrichments-re2
- workflows-emulator
- fastchecks
- veilcord
- plutus-terminal
- iflow-mcp-acryldata-mcp-server-datahub
- endorlabs-atst
- prompt-lint-py
- wvutils
- gpy-console
- jotunn
- protovalidate-unofficial
- websweep
- mimicel
- ongarde
- plutus-terminal-sandbox
- wgpu-native-installer
- vypex
- logtap
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
September 26, 2019
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
1.1.20251105
Total Releases
26
Contributors
70
Open PRs
29
Archived
No
Author
The RE2 Authors
Python Versions
3.9
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh