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PyMySQL

mysqlclient

MySQL/MariaDB connector for Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

mysqlclient has 21.8M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 2.2.8 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Feb 2026.

It is used by 235 tracked packages, including apache-airflow-providers-mysql, allianceauth and pydoris-custom.

GitHub topics include mysql and mariadb.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (PyMySQL/mysqlclient) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
656.7K
Week
4.6M
Month
21.8M
Stars
2.5K
Forks
444
Issues
4
Version
2.2.8

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
74
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
16 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,767,630
• 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
21,767,630
Stars
2,530
Stars per 1k downloads
0.12
• 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
656,350
Month daily avg
725,588
Momentum
-9.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
GPL-2.0-or-later
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
146 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
3.6
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
80
Monthly downloads
21,767,630
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
76
 
Issue Burden
1.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
35.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
129d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 564.8K
Windows 3.3K
macOS 546

Python Versions

3.11
39.1% 209.2K
3.10
28.7% 153.7K
3.12
16.2% 86.7K
3.13
8.1% 43.1K
3.14
8.0% 42.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
314.5K
2. DE DE
45.2K
3. IN IN
20.3K
4. JP JP
15.3K
5. IE IE
14.1K
6. GB GB
13.6K
7. CA CA
12.6K
8. CN CN
12.0K
9. AU AU
10.7K
10. SG SG
10.4K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GPL-2.0-or-later
First Release
April 28, 2014
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.2.8
Total Releases
44
Contributors
80
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp39 pp310 pp38
Keywords
MySQL
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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