No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
lizard has 1.1M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.23.0, first published in 2013.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of pathspec and pygments. It is used by 45 tracked packages, including pydriller, omniopt2 and spice-harness.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
72
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
22 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,147,200
•
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
1,147,200
Stars
2,414
Stars per 1k downloads
2.10
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
38,631
Month daily avg
38,240
Momentum
+1.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT
•
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
34 days ago
Total releases
128
Releases/year
10.0
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
62
Monthly downloads
1,147,200
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
16.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
14.5K
macOS
176
Windows
162
Python Versions
3.12
42.7%
5.7K
3.11
18.5%
2.5K
3.13
17.4%
2.3K
3.14
12.2%
1.6K
3.10
9.2%
1.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
12.1K
US
2.
FR
865
FR
3.
DE
535
DE
4.
GB
288
GB
5.
SG
171
SG
6.
JP
158
JP
7.
NL
143
NL
8.
IN
129
IN
9.
IE
114
IE
10.
AU
84
AU
Used By
45
- pydriller
- omniopt2
- spice-harness
- agentready
- slopstopper-cli
- graal
- grimoirelab
- llamea
- vallm
- py-gzkit
- statick
- esbmc-ai
- metripy
- codedd-cli
- git2net
- jutge-toolkit
- cursorcult
- atulya-api
- coinespy
- scargo
- srcly
- kln-ai
- eigenhelm
- codemetrics
- cmake-pre-commit-hooks
- code-understanding-mcp-server
- iohblade
- comprehension-debt
- pwrforge
- cremona
- code-expert-mcp
- mairex
- vultrition
- ghostclaw
- lazy-ci
- refactoroscope
- cognitive-guard
- cognitive-guard-publish
- gitanalyzer
- java-hotspots-cli
- coinespy-test-only
- test-coverage-analyzer
- pygitminer
- vds-nutrition-labels
- mcp-code-understanding
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 16, 2013
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.23.0
Total Releases
128
Contributors
62
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Terry Yin
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh