No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
laboratory has 178K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.2, first published in 2016.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2019.
GitHub topics include developer-tools, refactoring and scientist.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
58
Adoption
52
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
196 days ago
Monthly downloads
178,349
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
178,349
Stars
1,281
Stars per 1k downloads
7.18
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
4,989
Month daily avg
5,945
Momentum
-16.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
MIT
•
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
2619 days ago
Total releases
11
Releases/year
1.1
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
178,349
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
30
Issue Burden
2.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2423d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
613
Windows
37
macOS
1
Python Versions
3.12
53.2%
339
3.11
40.7%
259
2.7
3.5%
22
3.13
1.6%
10
3.9
1.1%
7
Top Countries
1.
US
572
US
2.
CA
94
CA
3.
HK
22
HK
4.
DE
20
DE
5.
IN
19
IN
6.
ID
10
ID
7.
SG
9
SG
8.
SA
8
SA
9.
BR
4
BR
10.
PL
3
PL
Used By
0
Not used by any tracked packages
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
February 14, 2016
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
1.0.2
Total Releases
11
Contributors
10
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Joe Alcorn
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.1
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh