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jq

Python bindings for jq
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

jq has 6.3M monthly downloads and 451 GitHub stars. Version 1.11.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.

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

It is used by 173 tracked packages, including pysigma, langflow-base and port-ocean.

Downloads
Day
185.2K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.3M
Stars
451
Forks
67
Issues
13
Version
1.11.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
55
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
171 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,331,272
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
6,331,272
Stars
451
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
202,668
Month daily avg
211,042
Momentum
-4.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
171 days ago
Total releases
42
Releases/year
3.5
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
10
Monthly downloads
6,331,272
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
53
 
Issue Burden
28.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 101.9K
Windows 881
macOS 699

Python Versions

3.12
51.4% 48.7K
3.11
27.2% 25.7K
3.13
8.5% 8.0K
3.10
7.9% 7.5K
3.9
5.0% 4.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
78.9K
2. DE DE
12.0K
3. NL NL
4.6K
4. SG SG
1.4K
5. IE IE
1.0K
6. IN IN
927
7. GB GB
491
8. JP JP
471
9. AU AU
453
10. FR FR
386

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
June 13, 2014
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
1.11.0
Total Releases
42
Contributors
10
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Author
Michael Williamson
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp310 pp37 pp38
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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