No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
newspaper3k has 838K monthly downloads and 15K GitHub stars. Version 0.2.8, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2018.
It is built on top of beautifulsoup4, cssselect and feedfinder2. It is used by 64 tracked packages, including llama-index-readers-web, locationtagger and simplerllm.
GitHub topics include news, crawler and crawling.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 2783 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
88
Adoption
79
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
55 days ago
Monthly downloads
838,377
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
838,377
Stars
15,090
Stars per 1k downloads
18.00
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
28,393
Month daily avg
27,946
Momentum
+1.6%
((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
•
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
2839 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
1.6
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
93
Monthly downloads
838,377
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
68
Issue Burden
27.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2783d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
19.6K
Windows
974
macOS
523
Python Versions
3.11
40.8%
7.7K
3.12
19.7%
3.7K
3.8
18.7%
3.5K
3.10
12.4%
2.3K
3.14
8.4%
1.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
12.6K
US
2.
NL
5.5K
NL
3.
CA
503
CA
4.
CN
355
CN
5.
SG
339
SG
6.
JP
280
JP
7.
IN
232
IN
8.
HK
204
HK
9.
DE
176
DE
10.
TW
90
TW
Dependencies
13
- beautifulsoup4 >=4.4.1
- cssselect >=0.9.2
- feedfinder2 >=0.0.4
- feedparser >=5.2.1
- jieba3k >=0.35.1
- lxml >=3.6.0
- nltk >=3.2.1
- pillow >=3.3.0
- python-dateutil >=2.5.3
- pyyaml >=3.11
- requests >=2.10.0
- tinysegmenter ==0.3
- tldextract >=2.0.1
Used By
64
- llama-index-readers-web
- locationtagger
- simplerllm
- cneura-ai
- bambooai
- tk-core
- nonebot-plugin-marshoai
- tickermood
- mediacloud-metadata
- animalsgonewild
- mcp-search-server
- mumin
- taskcraft
- yonglelaoren-feedland-parser
- arkeo
- material-zui
- querent
- intelmo
- axiom-news-summarizer
- news-fetch
- podcast-llm
- pycorelibs
- webcitizen
- oxford-learners-scraper
- fafi
- summedia
- plainews
- camel-toolkits-mcp
- ashare-analyzer
- orange3-bcaats
- gptparser
- agent-assembly-line
- nurphy
- neodict
- trustplutusmr
- damescraping
- mt-researcher
- xgne
- web-article-extractor
- research-task
- factuality
- pardesichat
- msftoolbox
- article-scraper-mcp
- article-scrapper
- stacksense-cli
- url-to-calibre
- ctm-ai
- pbarticles
- concinno-skills-content
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
December 17, 2014
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.2.8
Total Releases
18
Contributors
93
Open PRs
99
Archived
No
Author
Lucas Ou-Yang
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh