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mwparserfromhell

A Python parser for MediaWiki wikicode
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

mwparserfromhell has 1.5M monthly downloads and 885 GitHub stars. Version 0.7.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2012.

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

It is used by 39 tracked packages, including pywikibot, allelix and py-3rdparty-mediawiki.

GitHub topics include parser, mediawiki and wikipedia.

Downloads
Day
27.0K
Week
210.2K
Month
1.5M
Stars
885
Forks
87
Issues
81
Version
0.7.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
60
Adoption
60
Community
45
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
25 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,456,974
• 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
1,456,974
Stars
885
Stars per 1k downloads
0.61
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
30,034
Month daily avg
48,566
Momentum
-38.2%
((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
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
371 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
1.9
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
26
Monthly downloads
1,456,974
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
62
 
Issue Burden
91.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
345d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 17.0K
Windows 3.2K
macOS 2.9K

Python Versions

3.12
53.4% 12.1K
3.11
23.8% 5.4K
3.13
15.2% 3.4K
3.10
4.8% 1.1K
3.9
2.8% 630

Top Countries

1. US US
21.6K
2. BE BE
407
3. DE DE
315
4. SG SG
309
5. NL NL
229
6. JP JP
83
7. HK HK
70
8. IE IE
59
9. GB GB
56
10. CN CN
55
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 23, 2012
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.7.2
Total Releases
27
Contributors
26
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp32 cp34 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
mwparserfromhell wikipedia wiki mediawiki wikicode wikitext
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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