No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
imageio has 41.9M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.37.3 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2012.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of numpy and pillow. It is used by 1,400 tracked packages, including scikit-image, moviepy and viser.
GitHub topics include imageio, animated-gif and video.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
70
Adoption
80
Community
90
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
55 days ago
Monthly downloads
41,920,005
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
41,920,005
Stars
1,711
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
•
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
1,427,374
Month daily avg
1,397,334
Momentum
+2.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
119 days ago
Total releases
2
Releases/year
0.1
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
115
Monthly downloads
41,920,005
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
75
Issue Burden
64.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
64d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
885.1K
Windows
77.8K
macOS
19.8K
Python Versions
3.6
33.5%
280.5K
3.12
27.4%
229.5K
3.11
17.2%
144.3K
3.10
11.6%
97.4K
3.8
10.2%
85.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
748.5K
US
2.
IN
25.4K
IN
3.
SG
22.1K
SG
4.
HK
21.4K
HK
5.
CN
20.8K
CN
6.
AU
14.1K
AU
7.
DE
13.2K
DE
8.
IE
11.8K
IE
9.
NL
10.9K
NL
10.
JP
9.8K
JP
Dependencies
2
54 optional dependencies
- astropy[fits]
- astropy[full]
- astropy[all-plugins]
- av[pyav]
- av[all-plugins]
- av[full]
- black[linting]
- black[dev]
- black[full]
- flake8[linting]
- flake8[dev]
- flake8[full]
- fsspec[dev]
- fsspec[freeimage]
- fsspec[full]
- fsspec[test]
- fsspec[all-plugins]
- fsspec[all-plugins-pypy]
- gdal[gdal]
- imageio-ffmpeg[ffmpeg]
- imageio-ffmpeg[full]
- imageio-ffmpeg[all-plugins-pypy]
- imageio-ffmpeg[all-plugins]
- itk[itk]
- numpy[full]
- numpy[rawpy]
- numpy[all-plugins]
- numpydoc[docs]
- numpydoc[full]
- pillow-heif[all-plugins]
- pillow-heif[all-plugins-pypy]
- pillow-heif[full]
- pillow-heif[pillow-heif]
- psutil[all-plugins]
- psutil[all-plugins-pypy]
- psutil[ffmpeg]
- psutil[full]
- pydata-sphinx-theme[docs]
- pydata-sphinx-theme[full]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest[full]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-cov[full]
- pytest-cov[test]
- rawpy[all-plugins]
- rawpy[full]
- rawpy[rawpy]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx[full]
- tifffile[all-plugins]
- tifffile[all-plugins-pypy]
- tifffile[full]
- tifffile[tifffile]
Used By
1400
- scikit-image
- moviepy
- viser
- imgaug
- vectorbt
- lerobot
- pims
- napari-svg
- napari
- skan
- gym-aloha
- histomicstk
- recognizer
- amesa-train-dev
- sleap-io
- isaacsim-core
- flowtask
- climetlab
- gymnasium-robotics
- nerfstudio
- stardist
- unitorch
- pyjianyingdraft
- colour-demosaicing
- setiastrosuitepro
- vllm-omni
- mani-skill
- metaworld
- pycortex
- psychopy
- passporteye
- bioimageio-spec
- bioimageio-core
- pybullet-planning-eaa
- ibm-wos-utils
- imervue
- dreamify
- python-pycg
- mujoco-python-viewer
- atx
- renumics-spotlight
- imaug
- scikit-gstat
- partseg
- spectral-film-lut
- kikuchipy
- amesa-train
- ocaya
- ewoksfluo
- vhup
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
July 15, 2012
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
2.37.3
Total Releases
2
Contributors
115
Open PRs
19
Archived
No
Author
ImageIO contributors
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp26
cp27
cp33
cp34
cp35
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh