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kennknowles

jsonpath-rw

A robust and significantly extended implementation of JSONPath for Python, with a clear AST for metaprogramming.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

jsonpath-rw has 3.5M monthly downloads and 611 GitHub stars. Version 0.6, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2016.

It is used by 58 tracked packages, including jsonpath-rw-ext, httsleep and qontract-reconcile.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (kennknowles/python-jsonpath-rw) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
82.1K
Week
728.4K
Month
3.5M
Stars
611
Forks
220
Issues
37
Version
0.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
62
Adoption
60
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1838 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,498,694
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
3,498,694
Stars
611
Stars per 1k downloads
0.17
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
104,062
Month daily avg
116,623
Momentum
-10.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
3819 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
1.6
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
16
Monthly downloads
3,498,694
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
63
 
Issue Burden
60.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1980d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 28.8K
Windows 256
macOS 30

Python Versions

3.10
46.6% 12.2K
3.11
22.3% 5.8K
3.12
13.3% 3.5K
3.8
11.3% 3.0K
3.9
6.4% 1.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
26.8K
2. DE DE
1.2K
3. CA CA
1.1K
4. BE BE
1.1K
5. NL NL
668
6. JP JP
558
7. GB GB
520
8. IE IE
354
9. MY MY
308
10. FR FR
277

Package Information

License
Apache 2.0
First Release
February 9, 2013
Last Release
10 years ago
Last Commit
5 years ago
Latest Version
0.6
Total Releases
21
Contributors
16
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Kenneth Knowles
Python Versions
2 2.6 2.7 3 3.2 3.3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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