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lime

Lime: Explaining the predictions of any machine learning classifier
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

lime has 432K monthly downloads and 12K GitHub stars. Version 0.2.0.1 supports Python 3.5+, first published in 2016.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2020.

It is used by 106 tracked packages, including evalml, lecrapaud and piml.

Downloads
Day
10.6K
Week
108.7K
Month
431.8K
Stars
12.1K
Forks
1.8K
Issues
106
Version
0.2.0.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
87
Adoption
76
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1803 days ago
Monthly downloads
431,847
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
431,847
Stars
12,148
Stars per 1k downloads
28.13
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
15,524
Month daily avg
14,395
Momentum
+7.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.5
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
• 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
2201 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
3.7
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
431,847
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
64
 
Issue Burden
8.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
398d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.4K
Windows 170
macOS 50

Python Versions

3.9
29.8% 2.1K
3.11
26.7% 1.9K
3.10
16.7% 1.2K
3.12
15.4% 1.1K
3.13
11.4% 806

Top Countries

1. US US
5.4K
2. IN IN
558
3. BE BE
290
4. AU AU
233
5. SG SG
205
6. DE DE
174
7. NL NL
161
8. IE IE
130
9. GB GB
105
10. CN CN
54

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
March 24, 2016
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
4 years ago
Latest Version
0.2.0.1
Total Releases
38
Contributors
44
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Author
Marco Tulio Ribeiro
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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