No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
hunter has 1M monthly downloads and 871 GitHub stars. Version 3.9.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is built on top of manhole. It is used by 3 tracked packages, including reincarnation, xunter and stoic-trace-cockpit.
GitHub topics include debugging, debugger and tracer.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
58
Adoption
90
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
318 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,003,959
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
1,003,959
Stars
871
Stars per 1k downloads
0.87
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
38,789
Month daily avg
33,465
Momentum
+15.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
BSD-2-Clause
•
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
318 days ago
Total releases
55
Releases/year
4.9
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
10
Monthly downloads
1,003,959
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
40
Issue Burden
52.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.6%
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
2.7K
macOS
13
Windows
4
Python Versions
3.11
90.4%
2.5K
3.13
5.5%
150
3.12
3.5%
97
3.8
0.3%
8
3.10
0.3%
7
Top Countries
1.
IE
2.3K
IE
2.
US
429
US
3.
SG
53
SG
4.
AU
17
AU
5.
CN
16
CN
6.
JP
14
JP
7.
SE
13
SE
8.
BR
11
BR
9.
KE
6
KE
10.
FR
4
FR
Dependencies
1
- manhole >=1.5
Used By
3
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
March 22, 2015
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
3.9.0
Total Releases
55
Contributors
10
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
cp27
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp34
cp36
cp37
cp38
pp37
pp38
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh