PyRank
ethereum

hexbytes

Python `bytes` subclass that decodes hex, with a readable console output
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

hexbytes has 6.4M monthly downloads and 30 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.1 supports Python <4,>=3.8, first published in 2018.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2025.

It is used by 145 tracked packages, including eth-account, eth-rlp and web3.

Downloads
Day
210.5K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.4M
Stars
30
Forks
21
Issues
0
Version
1.3.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
34
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
38 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,399,749
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
6,399,749
Stars
30
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
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
200,333
Month daily avg
213,325
Momentum
-6.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.8
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
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
418 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
2.1
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
18
Monthly downloads
6,399,749
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
47
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
85.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
380d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 142.4K
Windows 2.8K
macOS 2.5K

Python Versions

3.12
36.5% 50.6K
3.11
35.9% 49.8K
3.13
11.9% 16.5K
3.10
8.8% 12.2K
3.14
6.9% 9.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
102.7K
2. IE IE
8.2K
3. DE DE
7.4K
4. SG SG
5.2K
5. FI FI
3.2K
6. NL NL
3.0K
7. KR KR
2.1K
8. CA CA
1.9K
9. JP JP
1.8K
10. RU RU
1.3K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 25, 2018
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.3.1
Total Releases
18
Contributors
18
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
The Ethereum Foundation
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
ethereum
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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