PyRank
python-lz4

lz4

LZ4 bindings for Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

lz4 has 98.2M monthly downloads and 302 GitHub stars. Version 4.4.5 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2012.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is used by 405 tracked packages, including databricks-sql-connector, clickhouse-connect and trino.

GitHub topics include lz4, lz4-frame and compression.

Downloads
Day
3.0M
Week
22.2M
Month
98.2M
Stars
302
Forks
83
Issues
22
Version
4.4.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
53
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
89 days ago
Monthly downloads
98,157,510
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
98,157,510
Stars
302
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
3,167,507
Month daily avg
3,271,917
Momentum
-3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
BSD 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
246 days ago
Total releases
85
Releases/year
5.9
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
48
Monthly downloads
98,157,510
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
74
 
Issue Burden
72.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
57.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
156d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.3M
Windows 15.3K
macOS 7.7K

Python Versions

3.11
34.7% 759.3K
3.12
32.7% 715.2K
3.10
18.2% 397.8K
3.13
9.1% 199.0K
3.9
5.4% 117.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.5M
2. DE DE
134.8K
3. IE IE
104.0K
4. NL NL
78.0K
5. SG SG
50.9K
6. IN IN
47.3K
7. GB GB
38.0K
8. JP JP
30.7K
9. CA CA
28.2K
10. KR KR
27.5K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
January 31, 2012
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
4.4.5
Total Releases
85
Contributors
48
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Author
Jonathan Underwood
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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