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langcodes

A Python library for working with and comparing language codes.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

langcodes has 11.3M monthly downloads and 31 GitHub stars. Version 3.5.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.

It is used by 179 tracked packages, including wordfreq, sap-ai-sdk-gen and ovos-plugin-manager.

Downloads
Day
360.4K
Week
2.6M
Month
11.3M
Stars
31
Forks
9
Issues
12
Version
3.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
31
Adoption
70
Community
35
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
219 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,338,515
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
11,338,515
Stars
31
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
364,373
Month daily avg
377,950
Momentum
-3.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
MIT License
• 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
216 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
1.9
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
11,338,515
• 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
47
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.1%
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 220.9K
Windows 3.9K
macOS 1.2K

Python Versions

3.12
34.1% 70.0K
3.10
28.2% 57.8K
3.11
17.7% 36.3K
3.9
10.5% 21.5K
3.8
9.6% 19.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
158.6K
2. IE IE
31.0K
3. DE DE
5.5K
4. CA CA
4.2K
5. SG SG
3.9K
6. IN IN
3.5K
7. JP JP
3.0K
8. NL NL
3.0K
9. GB GB
2.9K
10. AU AU
1.9K

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
October 7, 2014
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
3.5.1
Total Releases
22
Contributors
1
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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