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nipy

nibabel

Python package to access a cacophony of neuro-imaging file formats
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nibabel has 1.7M monthly downloads and 778 GitHub stars. Version 5.4.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2010.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of importlib-resources, numpy and packaging. It is used by 742 tracked packages, including nipype, fitz and nilearn.

GitHub topics include neuroimaging, brain-imaging and nifti.

Downloads
Day
50.8K
Week
367.2K
Month
1.7M
Stars
778
Forks
286
Issues
116
Version
5.4.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
65
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,701,197
• 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
1,701,197
Stars
778
Stars per 1k downloads
0.46
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
52,453
Month daily avg
56,707
Momentum
-7.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
117 days ago
Total releases
48
Releases/year
3.1
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
109
Monthly downloads
1,701,197
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
92
 
Issue Burden
149.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
23.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
38.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
113d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 27.1K
Windows 2.1K
macOS 1.7K

Python Versions

3.12
41.0% 11.4K
3.11
26.6% 7.4K
3.10
13.7% 3.8K
3.13
12.2% 3.4K
3.8
6.5% 1.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
22.9K
2. SG SG
1.5K
3. HK HK
1.1K
4. CN CN
961
5. IE IE
808
6. IN IN
618
7. GB GB
543
8. DE DE
521
9. JP JP
338
10. NL NL
324
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 15, 2010
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
5.4.2
Total Releases
48
Contributors
109
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3 py33
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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