No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
mkdocstrings has 7.7M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2019.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of jinja2, markdown and markupsafe. It is used by 183 tracked packages, including mkdocstrings-python, mkdocstrings-python-legacy and pyspark-data-sources.
GitHub topics include mkdocs, mkdocs-plugin and docstrings.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
67
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
82 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,699,033
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
7,699,033
Stars
2,082
Stars per 1k downloads
0.27
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
228,328
Month daily avg
256,634
Momentum
-11.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
ISC
•
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
82 days ago
Total releases
75
Releases/year
11.4
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
7,699,033
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
56
Issue Burden
3.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
57.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.4%
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
91.4K
Windows
2.7K
macOS
2.7K
Python Versions
3.12
35.5%
31.2K
3.11
27.3%
23.9K
3.13
14.7%
12.9K
3.10
11.4%
10.0K
3.14
11.1%
9.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
81.6K
US
2.
DE
4.3K
DE
3.
SG
3.4K
SG
4.
IE
3.2K
IE
5.
NL
2.4K
NL
6.
HK
752
HK
7.
SE
699
SE
8.
GB
684
GB
9.
FR
674
FR
10.
CA
601
CA
Dependencies
6
- jinja2 >=3.1
- markdown >=3.6
- markupsafe >=1.1
- mkdocs >=1.6
- mkdocs-autorefs >=1.4
- pymdown-extensions >=6.3
3 optional dependencies
- mkdocstrings-crystal[crystal]
- mkdocstrings-python[python]
- mkdocstrings-python-legacy[python-legacy]
Used By
183
- mkdocstrings-python
- mkdocstrings-python-legacy
- pyspark-data-sources
- ramodels
- mkdocs-autoapi
- mkdocstrings-crystal
- mkdocs-ansible
- lecrapaud
- payments-py
- mipi-datamanager
- mknodes
- openhound
- aiagents4pharma
- pyscreeps-arena
- mkdocstrings-python-xref
- hippogriffe
- agents-sdk-models
- eurocodepy
- balcony
- mkdocstrings-shell
- mkdocstrings-matlab
- certcc-ssvc
- geobay
- aas-middleware
- mkdocstrings-github
- diagnoseharmonisation
- llm4free
- bdomarket
- phenex
- quoptuna
- dv-utils
- pydelling
- agenticmem
- mkdoclingo
- lattereview
- docstra
- liblaf-mkdocs-preset
- mkdocstrings-twincat
- ebel
- irs-toolkit
- zdx
- md-transformer
- phederation
- clindocs
- dynestyx
- check-mkdocs
- evalcards
- nbdev-mkdocs
- virginia-clemm-poe
- free-transformer
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
ISC
First Release
December 12, 2019
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
1.0.4
Total Releases
75
Contributors
53
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
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