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laspy

laspy

Laspy is a pythonic interface for reading/modifying/creating .LAS LIDAR files matching specification 1.0-1.4.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

laspy has 2.1M monthly downloads and 501 GitHub stars. Version 2.7.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2012.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is built on top of numpy. It is used by 87 tracked packages, including ouster-sdk, openconstructionerp and cars.

GitHub topics include las, laz and lidar.

Downloads
Day
75.2K
Week
381.1K
Month
2.1M
Stars
501
Forks
126
Issues
19
Version
2.7.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
58
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
38 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,052,180
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
2,052,180
Stars
501
Stars per 1k downloads
0.24
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
54,439
Month daily avg
68,406
Momentum
-20.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
BSD-2-Clause
• 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
173 days ago
Total releases
43
Releases/year
3.1
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
44
Monthly downloads
2,052,180
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
71
 
Issue Burden
37.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
34.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
135d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 38.8K
Windows 458
macOS 185

Python Versions

3.14
45.7% 17.8K
3.12
39.9% 15.6K
3.11
7.4% 2.9K
3.10
3.9% 1.5K
3.13
3.2% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
36.7K
2. HU HU
1.4K
3. DE DE
155
4. NL NL
130
5. CA CA
126
6. FR FR
119
7. SG SG
116
8. SE SE
85
9. CN CN
69
10. ES ES
68
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
June 25, 2012
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
2.7.0
Total Releases
43
Contributors
44
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
gis las lidar
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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