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jackrosenthal

legacy-cgi

Fork of the standard library cgi and cgitb modules, being deprecated in PEP-594
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

legacy-cgi has 5.1M monthly downloads and 48 GitHub stars. Version 2.6.4 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2022.

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

It is used by 54 tracked packages, including webob, appengine-python-standard and pypiserver.

Downloads
Day
136.3K
Week
1.0M
Month
5.1M
Stars
48
Forks
10
Issues
1
Version
2.6.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
34
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
252 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,099,864
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
5,099,864
Stars
48
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
148,819
Month daily avg
169,995
Momentum
-12.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
PSF-2.0
• 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
252 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
1.2
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
64
Monthly downloads
5,099,864
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
52
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
640.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 68.4K
Windows 1.2K
macOS 387

Python Versions

3.13
65.1% 43.8K
3.12
18.5% 12.5K
3.14
12.5% 8.4K
3.10
2.1% 1.4K
3.11
1.9% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
57.1K
2. GB GB
3.0K
3. SG SG
2.5K
4. IE IE
2.0K
5. IN IN
1.4K
6. DE DE
753
7. ID ID
670
8. HK HK
617
9. BE BE
549
10. FR FR
392

Package Information

License
PSF-2.0
First Release
March 17, 2022
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
2.6.4
Total Releases
5
Contributors
64
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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