No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
olefile has 21.8M monthly downloads and 269 GitHub stars. Version 0.47, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2023.
It is used by 143 tracked packages, including msoffcrypto-tool, oletools and python-oxmsg.
GitHub topics include compound, parse and compound-document.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
53
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
616 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,774,061
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
21,774,061
Stars
269
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
689,273
Month daily avg
725,802
Momentum
-5.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*
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
BSD
•
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
948 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
0.8
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
20
Monthly downloads
21,774,061
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
73
Issue Burden
200.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
11.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
332d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
718.9K
Windows
23.7K
macOS
6.2K
Python Versions
3.12
70.4%
519.0K
3.13
14.1%
104.0K
3.11
8.3%
61.3K
3.10
4.8%
35.7K
3.14
2.3%
17.3K
Top Countries
1.
IN
368.2K
IN
2.
US
278.8K
US
3.
DE
12.9K
DE
4.
CN
12.9K
CN
5.
JP
11.1K
JP
6.
NL
9.2K
NL
7.
SG
8.9K
SG
8.
AU
7.5K
AU
9.
GB
6.4K
GB
10.
IE
4.5K
IE
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
143
- msoffcrypto-tool
- oletools
- python-oxmsg
- agate-excel
- openviking
- msg-parser
- gpt-researcher
- sharepoint-to-text
- python-msi
- allotropy
- surfacetopography
- atomicshop
- grabberlib2
- sflock2
- quicksand
- numorph-3dunet
- langchain-teddynote
- directory-validators
- hwp-hwpx-parser
- mentat-gulp
- hwpkit
- yadg
- django-spirit
- ppt2txt
- docsray
- dedoc
- deepmodels
- mbirjax
- hwp-mcp
- vgd-reader
- parse-emails
- pyaltiumlib
- grr-response-client-builder
- gethwp
- memuron
- cdxml-toolkit
- memory-agent
- xgen-doc2chunk
- txrm2tiff
- o2md
- msoffice-decrypt
- surfactant
- vtx-oletools
- arcpyext
- dochan
- contextifier
- gridgulp
- gpt-researcher-tomorrow
- aspose-words-foss
- pymeu
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
October 1, 2014
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.47
Total Releases
10
Contributors
20
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Author
Philippe Lagadec
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh