No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
kafka-python-ng has 1.5M monthly downloads and 105 GitHub stars. Version 2.2.3 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2024.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2024.
It is used by 22 tracked packages, including buz, moose-lib and pipelinepy.
GitHub topics include kafka.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 1 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
4
Popularity
39
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
642 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,524,681
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
1,524,681
Stars
105
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
52,979
Month daily avg
50,823
Momentum
+4.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Apache License 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
642 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
2.6
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
1
Monthly downloads
1,524,681
•
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
1323.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Overwhelmed
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
34.8K
macOS
76
Windows
74
Python Versions
3.12
30.9%
10.5K
3.13
29.9%
10.2K
3.11
27.3%
9.3K
3.10
10.3%
3.5K
3.7
1.6%
555
Top Countries
1.
US
26.9K
US
2.
DE
3.3K
DE
3.
IE
1.4K
IE
4.
IN
908
IN
5.
SG
323
SG
6.
NL
309
NL
7.
FR
304
FR
8.
IT
268
IT
9.
GB
207
GB
10.
IL
190
IL
Dependencies
0
5 optional dependencies
- botocore[boto]
- crc32c[crc32c]
- lz4[lz4]
- python-snappy[snappy]
- zstandard[zstd]
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
March 7, 2024
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.2.3
Total Releases
6
Contributors
1
Open PRs
23
Archived
Yes
Author
Dana Powers
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh