PyRank
pemistahl

lingua-language-detector

The most accurate natural language detection library for Python, suitable for short text and mixed-language text
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
72.6K
Week
413.2K
Month
1.7M
Stars
1.7K
Forks
60
Issues
39
Version
2.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
63
Adoption
80
Community
25
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
74 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,706,305
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
1,706,305
Stars
1,721
Stars per 1k downloads
1.01
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
59,032
Month daily avg
56,877
Momentum
+3.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
• 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
Apache Software License
• 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
74 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
2.3
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
7
Monthly downloads
1,706,305
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
50
 
Issue Burden
22.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 25.6K
Windows 314
macOS 262

Python Versions

3.12
40.7% 10.4K
3.11
29.7% 7.6K
3.10
19.1% 4.9K
3.13
8.6% 2.2K
3.14
1.9% 475

Top Countries

1. US US
18.0K
2. NL NL
4.2K
3. DE DE
2.5K
4. MY MY
299
5. IE IE
285
6. CN CN
223
7. CA CA
156
8. SG SG
151
9. RU RU
142
10. GB GB
101

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache Software License
First Release
January 10, 2022
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2.2.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
7
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp38 cp39 pp310 pp311 pp38 pp39 py3
Keywords
language-processing language-detection language-recognition nlp
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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