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package-url

packageurl-python

Python implementation of the package url spec. This project is sponsored by NLnet project https://nlnet.nl/project/vulnerabilitydatabase/ , the Google Summer of Code, nexB and other generous sponsors.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

packageurl-python has 28.2M monthly downloads and 90 GitHub stars. Version 0.17.6 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2017.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is used by 113 tracked packages, including cyclonedx-python-lib, checkov and cyclonedx-bom.

GitHub topics include purl, package-url and library.

Downloads
Day
1.0M
Week
6.7M
Month
28.2M
Stars
90
Forks
55
Issues
50
Version
0.17.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
44
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
118 days ago
Monthly downloads
28,151,072
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
28,151,072
Stars
90
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
956,584
Month daily avg
938,369
Momentum
+1.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
225 days ago
Total releases
57
Releases/year
6.6
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
28
Monthly downloads
28,151,072
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
70
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
107d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 677.9K
Windows 8.2K
macOS 7.0K

Python Versions

3.12
43.2% 293.8K
3.11
23.8% 162.2K
3.13
21.9% 149.2K
3.14
9.0% 61.5K
3.10
2.1% 14.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
541.8K
2. DE DE
51.2K
3. FI FI
36.6K
4. NL NL
12.0K
5. JP JP
8.7K
6. GB GB
6.4K
7. AU AU
6.1K
8. FR FR
3.8K
9. IE IE
3.2K
10. SE SE
2.8K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
November 18, 2017
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.17.6
Total Releases
57
Contributors
28
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
the purl authors
Python Versions
3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
package url package manager package url
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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