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hupper

in-process file monitor / reloader for reloading your code automatically during development
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

hupper has 2.8M monthly downloads and 223 GitHub stars. Version 1.12.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2016.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2024.

It is used by 23 tracked packages, including pyramid, datasette and spellbot.

GitHub topics include daemon, reload and inotify.

Downloads
Day
94.5K
Week
670.3K
Month
2.8M
Stars
223
Forks
28
Issues
5
Version
1.12.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
47
Adoption
80
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
601 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,835,060
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
2,835,060
Stars
223
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
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
95,752
Month daily avg
94,502
Momentum
+1.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
892 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
3.9
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
24
Monthly downloads
2,835,060
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
46
 
Issue Burden
22.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
85.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
291d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 22.8K
Windows 234
macOS 208

Python Versions

3.9
37.5% 26.9K
3.8
37.1% 26.6K
3.12
9.8% 7.0K
3.11
9.1% 6.5K
3.10
6.4% 4.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
42.4K
2. IE IE
4.8K
3. SG SG
4.3K
4. JP JP
4.1K
5. DE DE
3.9K
6. GB GB
3.9K
7. IN IN
3.9K
8. FR FR
3.8K
9. AU AU
3.8K
10. CN CN
2.6K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 21, 2016
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.12.1
Total Releases
38
Contributors
24
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Michael Merickel
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
server daemon autoreload reloader hup file watch process
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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