No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
netifaces has 2.6M monthly downloads and 338 GitHub stars. Version 0.11.0, first published in 2014.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in May 2021.
It is used by 322 tracked packages, including python-miio, advocate and chutes.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
6
Popularity
54
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1863 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,632,277
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,632,277
Stars
338
Stars per 1k downloads
0.13
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
82,176
Month daily avg
87,743
Momentum
-6.3%
((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
MIT License
•
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
1864 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
1.0
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
21
Monthly downloads
2,632,277
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
58
Issue Burden
94.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
43.3K
Windows
521
macOS
342
Python Versions
3.8
24.2%
7.9K
3.11
23.3%
7.6K
3.9
19.7%
6.5K
3.12
17.0%
5.6K
3.10
15.7%
5.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
31.7K
US
2.
FR
5.2K
FR
3.
GB
1.1K
GB
4.
DE
729
DE
5.
SG
700
SG
6.
ES
641
ES
7.
CA
599
CA
8.
CN
500
CN
9.
IE
480
IE
10.
JP
413
JP
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
322
- python-miio
- advocate
- chutes
- denonavr
- greeclimate
- os-sys
- pydaikin
- python-izone
- sisyphus-control
- docassemble-webapp
- philh-myftp-biz
- octoprint
- philips-airctrl
- cup
- slapos-core
- radical-utils
- otpme
- slapos-toolbox
- csle-collector
- agent360
- bear-tools
- ubo-app
- dhcpkit
- anynet
- ptf
- geode-gnss
- pytest-pve-cloud
- udi-interface
- kalavai-client
- lazysdk
- freegenius
- aibrix-kvcache
- decentmesh
- polyinterface
- pwncat-cs
- tycho-api
- tinytoolslib
- locallab
- multicast-expert
- katsdpservices
- archey4
- maestro-ng
- honeypots
- metpx-sarracenia
- daliuge-translator
- mtnet
- tahoe-lafs
- indexify-extractor-sdk
- asrepcatcher
- tinyscript
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
March 6, 2014
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
5 years ago
Latest Version
0.11.0
Total Releases
12
Contributors
21
Open PRs
2
Archived
Yes
Author
Alastair Houghton
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
cp26
cp27
cp33
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh