PyRank
adbar

htmldate

Fast and robust date extraction from web pages, with Python or on the command-line
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

htmldate has 12.4M monthly downloads and 153 GitHub stars. Version 1.10.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of charset-normalizer, dateparser and lxml. It is used by 9 tracked packages, including trafilatura, maru-deep-pro-search and mediacloud-metadata.

GitHub topics include metadata-extraction, date-parser and entity-extraction.

Downloads
Day
484.1K
Week
2.7M
Month
12.4M
Stars
153
Forks
31
Issues
11
Version
1.10.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
45
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
21 days ago
Monthly downloads
12,365,965
• 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
12,365,965
Stars
153
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
392,811
Month daily avg
412,199
Momentum
-4.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
Apache-2.0
• 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
35 days ago
Total releases
60
Releases/year
6.8
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
21
Monthly downloads
12,365,965
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
53
 
Issue Burden
71.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
67.7%
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 221.1K
Windows 7.4K
macOS 7.2K

Python Versions

3.12
53.3% 123.6K
3.11
19.5% 45.2K
3.13
19.2% 44.6K
3.14
5.3% 12.2K
3.10
2.7% 6.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
179.2K
2. HK HK
14.8K
3. SG SG
10.6K
4. DE DE
5.9K
5. NO NO
3.7K
6. NL NL
3.5K
7. IN IN
2.2K
8. ZA ZA
1.8K
9. GB GB
1.7K
10. CA CA
1.5K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
August 25, 2017
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.10.0
Total Releases
60
Contributors
21
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
datetime date-parser entity-extraction html-extraction html-parsing metadata-extraction webarchives web-scraping
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

Links