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pathspec

Utility library for gitignore style pattern matching of file paths.
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pathspec has 658.2M monthly downloads and 228 GitHub stars. Version 1.1.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.

It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is used by 1,594 tracked packages, including hatchling, mypy and black.

GitHub topics include gitignore-patterns and wildmatch.

Downloads
Day
21.6M
Week
152.9M
Month
658.2M
Stars
228
Forks
52
Issues
7
Version
1.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
50
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
32 days ago
Monthly downloads
658,155,157
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
658,155,157
Stars
228
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
21,840,104
Month daily avg
21,938,505
Momentum
-0.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)
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
70 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
3.0
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
27
Monthly downloads
658,155,157
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
48
 
Issue Burden
30.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
51.9%
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 14.2M
macOS 222.7K
Windows 216.6K

Python Versions

3.12
39.4% 5.6M
3.13
23.5% 3.3M
3.11
18.1% 2.6M
3.10
11.5% 1.6M
3.14
7.5% 1.1M

Top Countries

1. US US
10.4M
2. SG SG
1.4M
3. DE DE
564.5K
4. IE IE
560.9K
5. NL NL
270.7K
6. GB GB
230.2K
7. JP JP
192.1K
8. HK HK
130.2K
9. FR FR
128.7K
10. IN IN
109.7K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)
First Release
December 17, 2013
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.1.1
Total Releases
38
Contributors
27
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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