No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
linkchecker has 312K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 10.6.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jul 2025.
It is built on top of beautifulsoup4, dnspython and requests. It is used by 4 tracked packages, including omniopt2, mkdocs-ansible and linton.
GitHub topics include www, http and link-checker.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 218 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
64
Adoption
54
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
125 days ago
Monthly downloads
312,151
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
312,151
Stars
1,067
Stars per 1k downloads
3.42
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
8,739
Month daily avg
10,405
Momentum
-16.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
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
343 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
1.0
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
53
Monthly downloads
312,151
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
79
Issue Burden
72.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
21.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
218d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.9K
macOS
44
Windows
17
Python Versions
3.12
56.1%
1.0K
3.11
19.8%
360
3.13
11.7%
212
3.14
7.3%
133
3.10
5.1%
93
Top Countries
1.
US
1.9K
US
2.
CA
27
CA
3.
SG
23
SG
4.
FR
10
FR
5.
CH
6
CH
6.
NL
6
NL
7.
IE
5
IE
8.
DE
4
DE
9.
DK
4
DK
10.
LT
4
LT
Dependencies
3
- beautifulsoup4 >=4.8.1
- dnspython >=2.0
- requests >=2.20
Used By
4
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
First Release
April 23, 2014
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
10.6.0
Total Releases
12
Contributors
53
Open PRs
18
Archived
No
Author
LinkChecker Authors
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh