Monthly downloads
31.3K
Weekly downloads
6.0K
GitHub stars
641
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=2.6
Licence
EUPL
Last Release
4 years ago
Author
Stephen Tiedemann
First Release
April 21, 2016
Total Releases
15
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
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
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
61
Adoption
44
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1681 days ago
Monthly downloads
31,254
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
31,254
Stars
641
Stars per 1k downloads
20.51
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
863
Month daily avg
1,042
Momentum
-17.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.6
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
License categories
License
EUPL
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
1681 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
1.4
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
16
Monthly downloads
31,254
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
64
Issue Burden
109.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
409
Windows
30
macOS
26
Python Versions
3.12
79.6%
344
3.11
7.6%
33
3.10
5.6%
24
3.13
4.2%
18
3.14
3.0%
13
Top Countries
1.
US
367
US
2.
GB
21
GB
3.
FR
20
FR
4.
JP
18
JP
5.
DE
9
DE
6.
NG
4
NG
7.
NL
4
NL
8.
SG
4
SG
9.
CH
3
CH
10.
ES
3
ES
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
10
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Repository details
GitHub Topics
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
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