No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
natsort has 25.8M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 8.4.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2023.
It is used by 902 tracked packages, including apache-airflow-core, anndata and domdf-python-tools.
GitHub topics include natural-sort, sorting-interface and sorting.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1103 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
59
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
25,831,582
•
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
25,831,582
Stars
1,014
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
•
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
750,564
Month daily avg
861,053
Momentum
-12.8%
((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
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
1112 days ago
Total releases
58
Releases/year
4.3
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
22
Monthly downloads
25,831,582
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
44
Issue Burden
3.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1103d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
467.7K
Windows
12.1K
macOS
5.0K
Python Versions
3.10
26.1%
118.4K
3.13
25.2%
114.0K
3.12
21.3%
96.4K
3.11
20.0%
90.7K
3.14
7.4%
33.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
328.8K
US
2.
GB
71.6K
GB
3.
DE
15.6K
DE
4.
IE
14.2K
IE
5.
NL
10.6K
NL
6.
SG
5.6K
SG
7.
AU
5.4K
AU
8.
BR
5.1K
BR
9.
CN
3.9K
CN
10.
CA
3.6K
CA
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
902
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- anndata
- domdf-python-tools
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- pyproject-parser
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- sax
- octodns
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- hyperspy
- pyranges
- seqpro
- multiqc
- plantumlcli
- resdata
- resfo-utilities
- ert
- labelme
- genvarloader
- kiss-icp
- nwbinspector
- darwin-py
- flake8-dunder-all
- hfutils
- atopile
- apilogicserver
- fastestimator-nightly
- scitex-io
- darkseid
- webknossos
- xml2rfc
- libneuroml
- nikola
- boschminirpa
- lytekit
- scitex-str
- aqequil
- nbproject-test
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GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
November 17, 2012
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
8.4.0
Total Releases
58
Contributors
22
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Seth M. Morton
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh