No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
lingua-language-detector has 2M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.2.0 supports Python 3.12+, first published in 2022.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is used by 60 tracked packages, including olmocr, poster2json and scandeval.
GitHub topics include nlp, natural-language-processing and language-detection.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 7 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
63
Adoption
80
Community
25
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
120 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,008,161
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
2,008,161
Stars
1,752
Stars per 1k downloads
0.87
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
67,483
Month daily avg
66,939
Momentum
+0.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
120 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
2.2
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
7
Monthly downloads
2,008,161
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
22.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.5%
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
32.2K
Windows
1.0K
macOS
628
Python Versions
3.12
31.9%
10.4K
3.13
30.8%
10.1K
3.11
19.0%
6.2K
3.10
14.4%
4.7K
3.14
3.9%
1.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
25.4K
US
2.
DE
2.5K
DE
3.
SE
1.8K
SE
4.
NL
994
NL
5.
FR
839
FR
6.
CA
625
CA
7.
MY
308
MY
8.
IE
285
IE
9.
SG
256
SG
10.
RU
187
RU
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- pytest[test]
Used By
60
- olmocr
- poster2json
- scandeval
- safetext
- dlightrag
- euroeval
- docs-anonymizer
- eval-framework
- xiaogpt
- speech-to-speech
- groundrails
- pharia-inference-sdk
- llm-utility-pack
- olaph
- squeakycleantext
- pdf-language-detector
- hyperforge-nucliadb
- short-language-detection
- emacs-paw
- vibe-seller
- lattifai-captions
- semantic-compressor
- opusfilter
- colrev
- wipo-gbd-transformation
- emby-curator
- openlrc
- lift-linguistic-features-py
- langevals-lingua
- kahi-impactu-utils
- anonipy
- purism
- carnaval
- iga
- vopho
- multi-language-sentiment
- strive-ranker
- bpm-ai-inference
- metasyn
- harken-languages
- multi-tokenizer
- graph-ragu
- sub-convert2
- keywordanalyz
- textg2p
- duosubs
- polystring
- xtranslator
- mirage-bench
- slack-time-localization-bot
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
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
2.2.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
7
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp38
cp39
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh