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mss

An ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure Python using ctypes.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
106.2K
Week
651.9K
Month
2.7M
Stars
1.3K
Forks
114
Issues
42
Version
10.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
64
Adoption
80
Community
45
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,717,863
• 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
2,717,863
Stars
1,262
Stars per 1k downloads
0.46
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
93,128
Month daily avg
90,595
Momentum
+2.8%
((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 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
29 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
3.5
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
25
Monthly downloads
2,717,863
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
49
 
Issue Burden
33.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.9%
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 38.7K
Windows 24.2K
macOS 3.1K

Python Versions

3.12
47.8% 29.9K
3.11
15.5% 9.7K
3.10
14.2% 8.9K
3.13
12.5% 7.8K
3.14
10.0% 6.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
30.0K
2. IE IE
3.9K
3. SG SG
3.2K
4. CN CN
2.6K
5. JP JP
1.9K
6. CA CA
1.8K
7. PR PR
1.7K
8. DE DE
1.7K
9. BR BR
1.5K
10. IN IN
1.3K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
October 21, 2013
Last Release
4 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
10.2.0
Total Releases
44
Contributors
25
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
BitBlt CGGetActiveDisplayList CGImageGetBitsPerPixel EnumDisplayMonitors XGetImage XGetWindowAttributes XRRGetScreenResourcesCurrent ctypes monitor screen screencapture screengrab screenshot
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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