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paste

Python Paste (core) repository
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

paste has 1.2M monthly downloads and 65 GitHub stars. Version 3.10.1 supports Python 3+, first published in 2005.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2024.

It is built on top of setuptools. It is used by 76 tracked packages, including oslo-service, pastescript and neutron.

Downloads
Day
44.6K
Week
325.7K
Month
1.2M
Stars
65
Forks
50
Issues
8
Version
3.10.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
42
Adoption
90
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
510 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,212,690
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
1,212,690
Stars
65
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
46,529
Month daily avg
40,423
Momentum
+15.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3
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
796 days ago
Total releases
76
Releases/year
3.7
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
46
Monthly downloads
1,212,690
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
71
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
92.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
286d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 21.2K
macOS 10.0K
Windows 5.3K

Python Versions

3.14
26.3% 8.3K
3.10
25.7% 8.1K
3.12
20.0% 6.3K
3.11
14.8% 4.7K
3.13
13.2% 4.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
31.9K
2. RO RO
1.1K
3. IE IE
444
4. CN CN
356
5. DE DE
253
6. IN IN
245
7. SG SG
232
8. CA CA
229
9. FR FR
164
10. GB GB
120

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 3, 2005
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
3.10.1
Total Releases
76
Contributors
46
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Chris Dent
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3 py34
Keywords
web application server wsgi
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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