No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
hug has 127K monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 2.6.1 supports Python 3.5+, first published in 2015.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2020.
It is built on top of falcon and requests. It is used by 12 tracked packages, including pdocs, portray and covid-19.
GitHub topics include hug-api, python-api and falcon.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1239 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
79
Adoption
61
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1102 days ago
Monthly downloads
127,162
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
127,162
Stars
6,884
Stars per 1k downloads
54.14
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
4,009
Month daily avg
4,239
Momentum
-5.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.5
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
2342 days ago
Total releases
69
Releases/year
6.3
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
104
Monthly downloads
127,162
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
60
Issue Burden
23.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1239d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
900
Windows
657
macOS
2
Python Versions
3.10
56.2%
833
3.11
24.1%
357
3.13
10.0%
148
3.12
5.1%
76
3.8
4.6%
68
Top Countries
1.
US
1.4K
US
2.
SG
59
SG
3.
IN
41
IN
4.
CN
38
CN
5.
AU
13
AU
6.
NL
12
NL
7.
DE
7
DE
8.
HK
4
HK
9.
AE
2
AE
10.
DO
2
DO
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
July 23, 2015
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
2.6.1
Total Releases
69
Contributors
104
Open PRs
23
Archived
No
Author
Timothy Crosley
Python Versions
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh