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humanfriendly

Human friendly input/output for text interfaces using 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.

humanfriendly has 50M monthly downloads and 350 GitHub stars. Version 10.0, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2021.

It is used by 358 tracked packages, including azure-cli-core, acryl-datahub and azureml-core.

Downloads
Day
1.6M
Week
11.2M
Month
50.0M
Stars
350
Forks
52
Issues
21
Version
10.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
52
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1753 days ago
Monthly downloads
49,969,256
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
49,969,256
Stars
350
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
1,605,471
Month daily avg
1,665,642
Momentum
-3.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*
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
1753 days ago
Total releases
118
Releases/year
9.1
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
17
Monthly downloads
49,969,256
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
56
 
Issue Burden
60.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 829.3K
Windows 48.8K
macOS 15.3K

Python Versions

3.12
27.3% 217.9K
3.10
26.8% 214.2K
3.11
22.9% 182.5K
3.13
14.6% 116.8K
3.9
8.4% 66.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
599.7K
2. HK HK
45.1K
3. DE DE
36.9K
4. IE IE
29.4K
5. NL NL
29.4K
6. SG SG
28.8K
7. GB GB
16.0K
8. CN CN
12.4K
9. BR BR
12.0K
10. FR FR
11.5K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 26, 2013
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
4 years ago
Latest Version
10.0
Total Releases
118
Contributors
17
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Peter Odding
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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