No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pipe has 111K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.2 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2011.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2024.
It is used by 23 tracked packages, including graphrag-lexical-graph, subgrounds and adulib.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
67
Adoption
50
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
470 days ago
Monthly downloads
110,522
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
110,522
Stars
2,105
Stars per 1k downloads
19.05
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
3,270
Month daily avg
3,684
Momentum
-11.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
824 days ago
Total releases
9
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
28
Monthly downloads
110,522
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
49
Issue Burden
4.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
353d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.9K
Windows
30
macOS
2
Python Versions
3.10
49.3%
928
3.11
20.2%
381
3.9
16.4%
309
3.13
7.2%
135
3.14
7.0%
131
Top Countries
1.
US
1.8K
US
2.
JP
131
JP
3.
KR
23
KR
4.
SG
15
SG
5.
CA
9
CA
6.
FR
5
FR
7.
DE
4
DE
8.
FI
4
FI
9.
IE
4
IE
10.
RU
4
RU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
March 29, 2011
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.2
Total Releases
9
Contributors
28
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh