PyRank
hjson

hjson

Hjson for Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

hjson has 6.6M monthly downloads and 221 GitHub stars. Version 3.1.0, first published in 2015.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2022.

It is used by 78 tracked packages, including mkdocs-macros-plugin, super-collections and deepspeed.

GitHub topics include hjson.

Downloads
Day
187.2K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.6M
Stars
221
Forks
19
Issues
8
Version
3.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
45
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
247 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,634,117
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
6,634,117
Stars
221
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
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
196,786
Month daily avg
221,137
Momentum
-11.0%
((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 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
1424 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
1.9
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
24
Monthly downloads
6,634,117
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
42
 
Issue Burden
36.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
126.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1177d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 73.9K
Windows 1.1K
macOS 572

Python Versions

3.12
40.0% 26.3K
3.11
20.2% 13.3K
3.8
16.7% 11.0K
3.10
15.8% 10.4K
3.13
7.4% 4.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
53.1K
2. DE DE
7.7K
3. IE IE
4.7K
4. SG SG
2.1K
5. GB GB
1.3K
6. JP JP
1.1K
7. CN CN
651
8. NL NL
489
9. CA CA
485
10. IN IN
414
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
January 5, 2015
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
3.1.0
Total Releases
22
Contributors
24
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Christian Zangl
Python Versions
2 2.6 2.7 3 3.3 3.4 3.5
Wheels
py3
Keywords
json comments configuration
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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