PyRank
python

importlib-metadata

Library to access metadata for Python packages
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

importlib-metadata has 531.2M monthly downloads and 141 GitHub stars. Version 8.9.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2018.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of zipp. It is used by 3,832 tracked packages, including litellm, sqlalchemy and keyring.

Downloads
Day
15.5M
Week
116.3M
Month
531.2M
Stars
141
Forks
94
Issues
13
Version
8.9.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
49
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
83 days ago
Monthly downloads
531,232,407
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
531,232,407
Stars
141
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
16,611,170
Month daily avg
17,707,747
Momentum
-6.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
Apache-2.0
• 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
108 days ago
Total releases
129
Releases/year
15.8
• 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
71
Monthly downloads
531,232,407
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
69
 
Issue Burden
92.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
75.5%
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 10.8M
Windows 141.2K
macOS 80.4K

Python Versions

3.12
34.4% 3.2M
3.10
21.7% 2.0M
3.11
18.4% 1.7M
3.9
13.8% 1.3M
3.13
11.8% 1.1M

Top Countries

1. US US
8.0M
2. SG SG
749.8K
3. IN IN
519.4K
4. GB GB
288.6K
5. IE IE
258.1K
6. DE DE
226.0K
7. NL NL
196.4K
8. CA CA
181.9K
9. JP JP
87.2K
10. SE SE
75.5K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
May 17, 2018
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
8.9.0
Total Releases
129
Contributors
71
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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