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osxmetadata

Python package to read and write various MacOS extended attribute metadata such as tags/keywords and Finder comments from files. Includes CLI tool for reading/writing metadata.
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
18.2K
Weekly downloads
4.2K
GitHub stars
166

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
1.4.1
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
MIT
Last Release
8 months ago
First Release
December 29, 2018
Total Releases
65
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

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
38
Adoption
52
Community
10
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
242 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,165
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
18,165
Stars
166
Stars per 1k downloads
9.14
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
596
Month daily avg
606
Momentum
-1.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
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
242 days ago
Total releases
65
Releases/year
8.3
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
2
Monthly downloads
18,165
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
24
 
Issue Burden
198.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
24.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

macOS 588
Linux 2

Python Versions

3.12
35.8% 194
3.13
24.5% 133
3.14
19.6% 106
3.9
12.5% 68
3.15
7.6% 41

Top Countries

1. US US
251
2. DE DE
44
3. GB GB
35
4. FR FR
21
5. JP JP
20
6. KR KR
19
7. NL NL
15
8. CA CA
14
9. SG SG
12
10. AU AU
11

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

13
13 optional dependencies

Used By

2

Repository details

Forks
5
Issues
33
Last Commit
8 months ago
Contributors
2
Open PRs
1
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
cli extended_attributes mac macos metadata osx spotlight tags
Sources and methodology