No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pathvalidate has 22.9M monthly downloads and 293 GitHub stars. Version 3.3.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2016.

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

It is used by 332 tracked packages, including dlt, pytablewriter and piper-tts.

GitHub topics include sanitization, filepath and lint.

Downloads
Day
637.4K
Week
4.3M
Month
22.9M
Stars
293
Forks
17
Issues
8
Version
3.3.1

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
47
Adoption
60
Community
20
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
59 days ago
Monthly downloads
22,888,704
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
22,888,704
Stars
293
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
607,759
Month daily avg
762,957
Momentum
-20.3%
((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
MIT License
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
388 days ago
Total releases
84
Releases/year
8.2
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
8
Monthly downloads
22,888,704
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
33
 
Issue Burden
27.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
329d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 294.9K
Windows 38.5K
macOS 5.8K

Python Versions

3.12
44.9% 134.1K
3.11
23.4% 69.8K
3.13
15.4% 46.0K
3.10
10.5% 31.4K
3.14
5.8% 17.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
207.2K
2. SG SG
22.8K
3. DE DE
21.9K
4. IE IE
11.3K
5. IN IN
10.9K
6. NL NL
10.2K
7. FR FR
5.7K
8. JP JP
5.0K
9. BR BR
4.0K
10. CA CA
3.9K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
March 24, 2016
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.3.1
Total Releases
84
Contributors
8
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Tsuyoshi Hombashi
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh