No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
nba-api has 241K monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 1.11.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2018.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of numpy, pandas and requests. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including sportsball, basketball-reference-webscrapper and nba-on-court.
GitHub topics include nba, stats and nba-stats.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
78
Adoption
83
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
127 days ago
Monthly downloads
241,173
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
241,173
Stars
3,707
Stars per 1k downloads
15.37
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
9,490
Month daily avg
8,039
Momentum
+18.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
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
137 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
2.7
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
37
Monthly downloads
241,173
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
67
Issue Burden
21.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
8.4K
Windows
166
macOS
96
Python Versions
3.11
35.7%
3.0K
3.12
29.6%
2.5K
3.13
23.8%
2.0K
3.14
6.0%
501
3.10
4.9%
410
Top Countries
1.
US
8.3K
US
2.
CN
57
CN
3.
DE
47
DE
4.
NL
34
NL
5.
SG
31
SG
6.
IN
26
IN
7.
CA
23
CA
8.
TR
22
TR
9.
FI
13
FI
10.
AU
10
AU
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 17, 2018
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.11.4
Total Releases
21
Contributors
37
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Author
Swar Patel
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh