PyRank
Mimino666

langdetect

Port of Google's language-detection library to Python.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

langdetect has 10.3M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.9, first published in 2014.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2021.

It is used by 452 tracked packages, including unstructured, python-doctr and flair.

Downloads
Day
314.3K
Week
2.3M
Month
10.3M
Stars
1.9K
Forks
209
Issues
54
Version
1.0.9

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
69
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
490 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,287,186
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
10,287,186
Stars
1,895
Stars per 1k downloads
0.18
• 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
329,656
Month daily avg
342,906
Momentum
-3.9%
((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
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
1886 days ago
Total releases
11
Releases/year
0.9
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
10
Monthly downloads
10,287,186
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
49
 
Issue Burden
28.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1396d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 189.7K
Windows 4.5K
macOS 4.0K

Python Versions

3.12
39.2% 73.7K
3.11
24.6% 46.2K
3.10
24.5% 46.0K
3.13
8.0% 15.0K
3.9
3.7% 6.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
132.5K
2. IE IE
27.3K
3. DE DE
5.6K
4. IN IN
5.4K
5. NL NL
3.9K
6. BE BE
2.9K
7. CA CA
2.5K
8. SG SG
2.3K
9. GB GB
2.2K
10. CH CH
2.0K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 14, 2014
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.0.9
Total Releases
11
Contributors
10
Open PRs
16
Archived
No
Author
Michal Mimino Danilak
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
Wheels
py2
Keywords
language detection library
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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