No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
line-profiler has 2.9M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 5.0.2 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2009.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of tomli and typing-extensions. It is used by 83 tracked packages, including codeflash, easydev and line-profiler-pycharm.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 122 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
70
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,933,415
•
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
2,933,415
Stars
3,243
Stars per 1k downloads
1.11
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
77,376
Month daily avg
97,780
Momentum
-20.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
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
133 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.0
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
52
Monthly downloads
2,933,415
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
63
Issue Burden
14.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
38.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
122d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
34.3K
macOS
420
Windows
367
Python Versions
3.12
53.0%
17.5K
3.11
21.2%
7.0K
3.10
9.0%
3.0K
3.13
8.9%
2.9K
3.14
8.0%
2.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
30.6K
US
2.
ID
984
ID
3.
NO
954
NO
4.
IE
816
IE
5.
SG
590
SG
6.
DE
453
DE
7.
NL
222
NL
8.
JP
218
JP
9.
CN
191
CN
10.
CA
150
CA
Dependencies
2
48 optional dependencies
- cibuildwheel[all-strict]
- cibuildwheel[all]
- cmake[all-strict]
- cmake[all]
- coverage[tests]
- coverage[tests-strict]
- coverage[all]
- coverage[all-strict]
- cython[all-strict]
- cython[all]
- ipython[ipython]
- ipython[ipython-strict]
- ipython[optional]
- ipython[optional-strict]
- ipython[all]
- ipython[all-strict]
- ninja[all-strict]
- ninja[all]
- pytest[all]
- pytest[all-strict]
- pytest[tests]
- pytest[tests-strict]
- pytest-cov[tests-strict]
- pytest-cov[all]
- pytest-cov[all-strict]
- pytest-cov[tests]
- rich[optional]
- rich[all]
- rich[all-strict]
- rich[optional-strict]
- scikit-build[all]
- scikit-build[all-strict]
- setuptools[all-strict]
- setuptools[all]
- tomli[all-strict]
- tomli[all]
- tomli[runtime-strict]
- typing-extensions[all-strict]
- typing-extensions[all]
- typing-extensions[runtime-strict]
- ubelt[all]
- ubelt[all-strict]
- ubelt[tests]
- ubelt[tests-strict]
- xdoctest[all]
- xdoctest[all-strict]
- xdoctest[tests]
- xdoctest[tests-strict]
Used By
83
- codeflash
- easydev
- line-profiler-pycharm
- sciris
- deepquant
- rosys
- hera-calibration
- benchopt
- eta-incerto
- py5
- forex-data-aggregator
- gatling
- ir-support
- lightzero
- drf-viewset-profiler
- matvis
- django-debug-toolbar-line-profiling
- yyxx-game-pkg
- hera-cli-utils
- aipymemtimeprofiler
- scope-profiler
- soxspipe
- django-kaleidoscope
- hypergo
- struphy
- bili-cli
- vecoli
- qpool
- headergen
- nitro-pandas
- wildbook-ia
- pytest-autoprofile
- lstm-tools
- xraylabtool
- gsobench
- anomalib-orobix
- my-recommending
- trackinglog
- groqon
- pomdpplanners
- batbot
- line-profiler-web
- pipeless-ai
- spyder-line-profiler
- polars-lprof
- lazyline
- pcap-blur
- pprof
- goliat
- ysda
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
January 21, 2009
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
5.0.2
Total Releases
35
Contributors
52
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
Robert Kern
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh