No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
optype has 3.6M monthly downloads and 90 GitHub stars. Version 0.18.0 supports Python 3.12+, first published in 2024.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 12 tracked packages, including scipy-stubs, quaxed and dataclassish.
GitHub topics include pep484, python-typing and numpy.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 5 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
36
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,636,640
•
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
3,636,640
Stars
90
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
113,728
Month daily avg
121,221
Momentum
-6.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
•
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-3-Clause
•
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
29 days ago
Total releases
36
Releases/year
15.2
•
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
5
Monthly downloads
3,636,640
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
41
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
62.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
61.1K
Windows
2.3K
macOS
1.6K
Python Versions
3.14
36.4%
23.2K
3.13
27.2%
17.4K
3.12
24.4%
15.6K
3.10
6.1%
3.9K
3.11
5.9%
3.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
55.8K
US
2.
GB
4.1K
GB
3.
DE
724
DE
4.
AE
592
AE
5.
CN
418
CN
6.
IE
390
IE
7.
BR
381
BR
8.
NL
363
NL
9.
MY
316
MY
10.
SG
245
SG
Dependencies
1
- typing-extensions >=4.10
2 optional dependencies
- numpy[numpy]
- numpy-typing-compat[numpy]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
February 22, 2024
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
0.18.0
Total Releases
36
Contributors
5
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Joren Hammudoglu
Python Versions
3
3.12
3.13
3.14
3.15
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh