PyRank
pickleshare

pickleshare

File system based database that uses python pickles
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pickleshare has 14.5M monthly downloads and 73 GitHub stars. Version 0.7.5, first published in 2006.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2018.

It is built on top of pathlib2. It is used by 147 tracked packages, including spyder, snappy and pylife.

Downloads
Day
418.6K
Week
3.2M
Month
14.5M
Stars
73
Forks
24
Issues
6
Version
0.7.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
40
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
964 days ago
Monthly downloads
14,475,263
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
14,475,263
Stars
73
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
454,521
Month daily avg
482,509
Momentum
-5.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
2841 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
0.6
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
32
Monthly downloads
14,475,263
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
57
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
133.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1876d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 297.3K
Windows 3.4K
macOS 1.1K

Python Versions

3.8
33.1% 89.8K
3.7
28.0% 76.2K
3.12
15.5% 42.1K
3.10
12.6% 34.3K
3.11
10.8% 29.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
234.9K
2. DE DE
12.1K
3. SG SG
9.5K
4. IE IE
9.4K
5. CA CA
8.4K
6. AU AU
5.0K
7. KR KR
4.0K
8. NL NL
3.8K
9. BR BR
3.0K
10. HK HK
2.3K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 28, 2006
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
0.7.5
Total Releases
12
Contributors
32
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Ville Vainio
Python Versions
2 2.7 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
database persistence pickle ipc shelve
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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