PyRank
MechanicalSoup

mechanicalsoup

A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

mechanicalsoup has 128K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 1.4.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2025.

It is built on top of beautifulsoup4, certifi and lxml. It is used by 38 tracked packages, including kenpompy, webcode-tk and cazy-webscraper.

GitHub topics include beautifulsoup, mechanicalsoup and requests.

Downloads
Day
5.2K
Week
29.3K
Month
128.1K
Stars
4.9K
Forks
391
Issues
30
Version
1.4.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
77
Adoption
61
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
128,115
• 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
128,115
Stars
4,873
Stars per 1k downloads
38.04
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
4,182
Month daily avg
4,270
Momentum
-2.1%
((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
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
402 days ago
Total releases
28
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
45
Monthly downloads
128,115
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
57
 
Issue Burden
6.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
392d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.6K
Windows 23
macOS 12

Python Versions

3.11
35.9% 1.3K
3.12
26.8% 938
3.13
19.6% 686
3.14
11.9% 418
3.10
5.8% 203

Top Countries

1. US US
2.0K
2. FR FR
989
3. CN CN
124
4. CH CH
102
5. SG SG
91
6. HK HK
90
7. DE DE
42
8. GB GB
37
9. IE IE
21
10. IN IN
17
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 1, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.4.0
Total Releases
28
Contributors
45
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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