No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
mplcursors has 1.5M monthly downloads and 129 GitHub stars. Version 0.7.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2016.
It is stably maintained, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of importlib-metadata and matplotlib. It is used by 75 tracked packages, including reliability, geoanalytics and calibration-statistics-tool.
GitHub topics include matplotlib.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 6 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
42
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
110 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,543,819
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
1,543,819
Stars
129
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
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
47,497
Month daily avg
51,461
Momentum
-7.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a license.
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
110 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
1.2
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
6
Monthly downloads
1,543,819
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
30
Issue Burden
38.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
30.0%
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
53.5K
Windows
234
macOS
77
Python Versions
3.12
63.8%
34.3K
3.14
33.5%
18.0K
3.11
2.0%
1.1K
3.13
0.4%
227
3.10
0.2%
114
Top Countries
1.
US
53.0K
US
2.
SG
93
SG
3.
NL
70
NL
4.
CA
69
CA
5.
NO
67
NO
6.
BE
51
BE
7.
DE
49
DE
8.
KR
45
KR
9.
CN
42
CN
10.
IE
34
IE
Dependencies
2
- importlib-metadata
- matplotlib !=3.10.3,!=3.7.1,>=3.1
4 optional dependencies
- pandas[docs]
- pydata-sphinx-theme[docs]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-gallery[docs]
Used By
75
- reliability
- geoanalytics
- calibration-statistics-tool
- steam-sdk
- nexpy
- c3d-parser
- acom-music-box
- gcmprocpy
- pyfda
- roastcoffea
- bsix
- fiqus
- prim
- intellimaint
- ccsi-foqus
- matisse
- tadamz-gui
- auto-vtna
- ebrow
- yxsplot
- alfred-exoplanets
- heifetslab-unravel
- isistools
- medpc2excel
- alchemist-nrel
- grynn-fplot
- wiliot-deployment-tools
- autolei
- kci-dev
- marketquant
- gwkokab
- mindkosh
- allskycam4oleodl
- boxmot-with-tracker
- uavdex
- myoverse
- asiva
- pious
- pdcifplotter
- beadclust
- femmt
- stock-prediction-sta410
- materialdatabase
- iaa-od
- rhodium
- laser-generic
- boxmot-with-appoint-id
- midrc-melody
- mathvizpro
- specthr
Package Information
License
Unknown
First Release
October 9, 2016
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.7.1
Total Releases
12
Contributors
6
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Antony Lee
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh