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fhamborg

news-please

news-please - an integrated web crawler and information extractor for news that just works
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
41.6K
Weekly downloads
14.7K
GitHub stars
2.5K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
1.6.16
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
Apache License 2.0
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
Felix Hamborg
First Release
October 23, 2016
Total Releases
133
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
74
Adoption
86
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
184 days ago
Monthly downloads
41,641
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
41,641
Stars
2,492
Stars per 1k downloads
59.84
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
2,103
Month daily avg
1,388
Momentum
+51.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
• Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Apache License 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
390 days ago
Total releases
133
Releases/year
13.3
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
37
Monthly downloads
41,641
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
61
 
Issue Burden
2.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
205d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.6K
Windows 3
macOS 1

Python Versions

3.12
72.9% 1.1K
3.10
23.4% 367
3.11
3.2% 50
3.13
0.3% 5
3.9
0.2% 3

Top Countries

1. US US
1.6K
2. CH CH
21
3. DE DE
6
4. CA CA
4
5. KR KR
4
6. FR FR
3
7. HR HR
3
8. IN IN
3
9. IE IE
2
10. SE SE
2

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

25

Used By

1

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
news crawler scraper extractor information retrieval
Sources and methodology