PyRank
hMatoba

piexif

Exif manipulation with pure python script.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

piexif has 2.5M monthly downloads and 392 GitHub stars. Version 1.1.3, first published in 2015.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2019.

It is used by 161 tracked packages, including dghs-imgutils, plone-namedfile and stegano.

GitHub topics include exif, jpeg and webp.

Downloads
Day
60.1K
Week
473.6K
Month
2.5M
Stars
392
Forks
88
Issues
44
Version
1.1.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
55
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2385 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,507,564
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
2,507,564
Stars
392
Stars per 1k downloads
0.16
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
67,657
Month daily avg
83,585
Momentum
-19.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*, !=3.4.*
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
2563 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.4
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
9
Monthly downloads
2,507,564
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
59
 
Issue Burden
112.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
178d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 33.0K
Windows 11.7K
macOS 2.6K

Python Versions

3.12
33.9% 15.5K
3.11
21.8% 9.9K
3.10
19.0% 8.6K
3.13
17.9% 8.2K
3.14
7.4% 3.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
25.5K
2. SG SG
2.7K
3. JP JP
2.4K
4. DE DE
1.7K
5. CN CN
918
6. CA CA
914
7. KR KR
877
8. FR FR
818
9. IN IN
804
10. VN VN
793
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 31, 2015
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
6 years ago
Latest Version
1.1.3
Total Releases
16
Contributors
9
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
hMatoba
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.5 3.6 3.7
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
exif jpeg
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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