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hidapi

:snake: Python wrapper for the HIDAPI
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

hidapi has 1.1M monthly downloads and 324 GitHub stars. Version 0.15.0, first published in 2015.

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

It is used by 114 tracked packages, including pyocd, spsdk-mcu-link and ledgerblue.

Downloads
Day
38.3K
Week
262.3K
Month
1.1M
Stars
324
Forks
121
Issues
7
Version
0.15.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
56
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
114 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,137,412
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
1,137,412
Stars
324
Stars per 1k downloads
0.28
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
37,477
Month daily avg
37,914
Momentum
-1.2%
((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
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
210 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
3.2
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
43
Monthly downloads
1,137,412
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
69
 
Issue Burden
21.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
96d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 12.6K
Windows 2.6K
macOS 917

Python Versions

3.12
48.5% 7.1K
3.11
20.4% 3.0K
3.10
16.2% 2.4K
3.13
7.5% 1.1K
3.14
7.3% 1.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
10.7K
2. GB GB
629
3. CN CN
479
4. DE DE
424
5. DK DK
423
6. IE IE
394
7. SG SG
362
8. JP JP
329
9. NL NL
320
10. RO RO
228

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
September 29, 2015
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.15.0
Total Releases
35
Contributors
43
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Pavol Rusnak
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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