No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

langid has 719K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.1.6, first published in 2012.

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

It is used by 76 tracked packages, including gamesentenceminer, utilities-nlp and abilian-sbe.

Downloads
Day
24.8K
Week
167.9K
Month
718.7K
Stars
2.5K
Forks
319
Issues
26
Version
1.1.6

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
72
Adoption
78
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3278 days ago
Monthly downloads
718,710
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
718,710
Stars
2,461
Stars per 1k downloads
3.42
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
23,993
Month daily avg
23,957
Momentum
+0.1%
((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
BSD
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
3698 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
0.6
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
6
Monthly downloads
718,710
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
37
 
Issue Burden
10.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
419d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 12.4K
Windows 609
macOS 240

Python Versions

3.12
47.4% 5.9K
3.11
19.0% 2.4K
3.13
14.1% 1.8K
3.10
11.7% 1.5K
3.9
7.7% 966

Top Countries

1. US US
13.0K
2. DE DE
704
3. FI FI
530
4. NL NL
467
5. GB GB
303
6. SG SG
263
7. JP JP
148
8. IN IN
123
9. CA CA
117
10. IE IE
90

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
July 25, 2012
Last Release
10 years ago
Last Commit
8 years ago
Latest Version
1.1.6
Total Releases
8
Contributors
6
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Marco Lui
Python Versions
2 2.7 3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh