No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
inotify-simple has 1.8M monthly downloads and 135 GitHub stars. Version 2.0.1 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2016.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is used by 33 tracked packages, including greatminds, slapos-cookbook and bugsink.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 7 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
43
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
315 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,837,091
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
1,837,091
Stars
135
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
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
42,321
Month daily avg
61,236
Momentum
-30.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
315 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
2.0
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
7
Monthly downloads
1,837,091
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
29.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.3%
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
24.0K
macOS
7
Windows
5
Python Versions
3.12
59.2%
13.6K
3.8
29.4%
6.8K
3.13
4.9%
1.1K
3.11
3.7%
856
3.14
2.7%
627
Top Countries
1.
US
20.8K
US
2.
AU
678
AU
3.
DE
339
DE
4.
SG
273
SG
5.
RU
201
RU
6.
CN
151
CN
7.
GB
131
GB
8.
CA
130
CA
9.
ES
124
ES
10.
FI
116
FI
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
33
- greatminds
- slapos-cookbook
- bugsink
- airut
- classifier-pipeline
- yhttp
- ricxappframe
- snappea
- background-music
- ordec
- mpr
- reverberator
- escape-sdk
- shadowlib
- coauthor
- mfutil
- fingertip
- prusa-connect-sdk-printer
- dockerdo
- moonraker
- docker-mailagent
- bignole
- morpheus-wake
- pinthesky
- nginx2es
- streamdeckfs
- keyszer
- trawa
- valve-gfx-ci-executor-server
- lisscad
- execlib
- spad-mcp
- keydope
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
January 11, 2016
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
2.0.1
Total Releases
21
Contributors
7
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh