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parsel

Parsel lets you extract data from XML/HTML documents using XPath or CSS selectors
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parsel has 4.8M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.11.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is built on top of cssselect, jmespath and lxml. It is used by 170 tracked packages, including scrapy, itemloaders and requestium.

GitHub topics include lxml, xpath and xml.

Downloads
Day
187.1K
Week
1.1M
Month
4.8M
Stars
1.3K
Forks
162
Issues
31
Version
1.11.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
65
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
158 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,757,191
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
4,757,191
Stars
1,339
Stars per 1k downloads
0.28
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
153,190
Month daily avg
158,573
Momentum
-3.4%
((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
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
158 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
2.3
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
53
Monthly downloads
4,757,191
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
62
 
Issue Burden
23.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 77.8K
Windows 2.2K
macOS 1.3K

Python Versions

3.11
37.7% 29.0K
3.12
23.2% 17.9K
3.10
21.0% 16.1K
3.13
12.8% 9.8K
3.14
5.3% 4.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
57.0K
2. IE IE
4.1K
3. DE DE
2.4K
4. SG SG
2.1K
5. NL NL
2.1K
6. GB GB
1.3K
7. AU AU
1.3K
8. CN CN
1.2K
9. CA CA
981
10. KR KR
865
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
July 30, 2015
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
1.11.0
Total Releases
25
Contributors
53
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
parsel
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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