No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
ijson has 50.8M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 3.5.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2010.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is used by 290 tracked packages, including azure-kusto-data, inspect-ai and statsig.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
60
Adoption
70
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
50,791,956
•
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
50,791,956
Stars
1,084
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
•
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
1,578,832
Month daily avg
1,693,065
Momentum
-6.7%
((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-3-Clause AND ISC
•
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
0 days ago
Total releases
43
Releases/year
2.7
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
Unknown
Monthly downloads
50,791,956
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
Contributor count is missing — this usually indicates the package has no linked GitHub repository.
Engagement
19
Issue Burden
9.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
-
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.1M
Windows
19.1K
macOS
5.7K
Python Versions
3.11
34.5%
379.9K
3.12
30.0%
330.3K
3.10
24.2%
266.4K
3.13
6.2%
68.8K
3.14
5.1%
56.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
930.0K
US
2.
NL
49.5K
NL
3.
IE
40.1K
IE
4.
SG
19.9K
SG
5.
DE
17.4K
DE
6.
KR
9.0K
KR
7.
FI
8.9K
FI
8.
BR
8.7K
BR
9.
GB
7.0K
GB
10.
AU
6.8K
AU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
290
- azure-kusto-data
- inspect-ai
- statsig
- vllm
- airbyte-cdk
- acryl-datahub
- sqlalchemy-drill
- skypilot
- codecov-cli
- label-studio-sdk
- unstructured-ingest
- hdx-python-utilities
- dataflows-tabulator
- spider-client
- tm1py
- smithy-json
- pysnow
- inspect-scout
- vllm-cpu
- skypilot-nightly
- aiopenapi3
- label-studio
- datalab-python-sdk
- claude-mpm
- port-ocean
- matrix-synapse
- vllm-tpu
- dpone
- getstream
- eth-ape
- llm-gemini
- ndex2
- pantsbuild-pants
- ocdskit
- cvexplore
- flatterer
- macrobond-data-api
- esrally
- naas-abi-marketplace
- vunnel
- sapiens-transformers
- vllm-cpu-nightly
- regscale-cli
- discord-ferry
- aignostics
- opensearch-benchmark
- matryca-plumber
- kgx
- averbis-python-api
- ravendb
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause AND ISC
First Release
August 26, 2010
Last Release
4 hr ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.5.1
Total Releases
43
Contributors
0
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp27
pp310
pp311
pp36
pp37
pp38
pp39
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh