No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
napalm has 181K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 5.1.0, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is built on top of cffi, jinja2 and junos-eznc. It is used by 62 tracked packages, including nornir-napalm, nornir-nautobot and napalm-panos.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 299 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
75
Adoption
62
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
35 days ago
Monthly downloads
181,327
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
181,327
Stars
2,473
Stars per 1k downloads
13.64
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
5,925
Month daily avg
6,044
Momentum
-2.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
•
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
335 days ago
Total releases
43
Releases/year
3.8
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
185
Monthly downloads
181,327
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
94
Issue Burden
62.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
299d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.6K
Windows
34
macOS
7
Python Versions
3.11
55.9%
1.9K
3.12
29.5%
1.0K
3.13
7.8%
265
3.10
3.7%
125
3.14
3.1%
106
Top Countries
1.
US
3.3K
US
2.
IN
50
IN
3.
ID
45
ID
4.
DE
43
DE
5.
SG
38
SG
6.
CN
23
CN
7.
GB
20
GB
8.
AU
16
AU
9.
FI
16
FI
10.
NL
12
NL
Dependencies
17
- cffi >=1.11.3
- jinja2
- junos-eznc >=2.7.4
- lxml >=4.3.0
- ncclient
- netaddr
- netmiko >=4.4.0
- netutils >=1.0.0
- paramiko >=2.6.0
- pyeapi >=1.0.2
- pyyaml
- requests >=2.7.0
- setuptools >=38.4.0
- textfsm
- ttp
- ttp-templates
- typing-extensions >=4.3.0
Used By
62
- nornir-napalm
- nornir-nautobot
- napalm-panos
- nautobot-device-onboarding
- netbox-napalm-plugin
- napalm-unifi
- netboxlabs-device-discovery
- napalm-hios
- umnet-napalm
- napalm-ros
- napalm-nokia-olt
- napalm-huawei-vrp
- napalm-sros
- network-aiops
- netbox-config-backup
- napalm-srl
- djangolg
- sfacts
- napalm-s350
- sc-napalm
- napalm-eltex2448
- napalm-mos
- nornir-validate
- napalm-procurve
- napalm-srlinux
- np-autodisc
- terminaltelemetry
- napalm-gaia
- napalm-servertech-pro2
- napalm-fsos-ssh
- velocitycmdb
- nectl
- ntc-netbox-plugin-onboarding
- napalm-asa
- netbox-facts
- stockpiler
- netbox-network-importer
- napalm-tplink-jetstream
- cibercca
- napalm-netgear
- cisco-documentation
- kuaria
- netblow
- napalm-device-types
- napalm-ftos
- salt-napalm
- napalm-inspector
- pyretroterm
- network-config-checker
- invalid-scraper
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 27, 2015
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
5.1.0
Total Releases
43
Contributors
185
Open PRs
19
Archived
No
Author
David Barroso, Kirk Byers, Mircea Ulinic, Brandon Ewing
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh