PyRank
coleifer

huey

a little task queue for python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

huey has 19.2M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 3.1.1, first published in 2012.

It is actively maintained, last released in Jul 2026.

It is used by 52 tracked packages, including mlflow, claude-mpm and huey-stubs.

GitHub topics include redis, task-queue and queue.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (coleifer/huey) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
628.9K
Week
4.4M
Month
19.2M
Stars
6.0K
Forks
396
Issues
0
Version
3.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
78
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
19,241,231
• 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
19,241,231
Stars
5,983
Stars per 1k downloads
0.31
• 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
628,547
Month daily avg
641,374
Momentum
-2.0%
((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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
4 days ago
Total releases
78
Releases/year
5.4
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
57
Monthly downloads
19,241,231
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
37
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.4%
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 379.6K
Windows 4.1K
macOS 3.0K

Python Versions

3.12
46.6% 179.2K
3.11
26.9% 103.6K
3.10
17.2% 66.2K
3.13
8.4% 32.2K
3.14
0.9% 3.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
295.4K
2. IE IE
23.6K
3. NL NL
23.5K
4. DE DE
9.9K
5. AU AU
6.4K
6. SG SG
5.7K
7. IN IN
5.7K
8. GB GB
2.9K
9. CA CA
2.2K
10. BR BR
2.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Unknown
First Release
January 4, 2012
Last Release
5 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
3.1.1
Total Releases
78
Contributors
57
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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