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pipreqs

pipreqs - Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any project. Looking for maintainers to move this project forward.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pipreqs has 877K monthly downloads and 7K GitHub stars. Version 0.5.0 supports Python >=3.8.1,<3.13, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2024.

It is built on top of docopt, ipython and nbconvert. It is used by 78 tracked packages, including bscommon, pfix and aifactory.

Downloads
Day
32.1K
Week
220.7K
Month
877.3K
Stars
7.5K
Forks
419
Issues
187
Version
0.5.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
80
Adoption
79
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
127 days ago
Monthly downloads
877,321
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
877,321
Stars
7,455
Stars per 1k downloads
8.50
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
31,530
Month daily avg
29,244
Momentum
+7.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8.1,<3.13
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
Apache-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
869 days ago
Total releases
41
Releases/year
3.7
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
64
Monthly downloads
877,321
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
25.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
741d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 19.7K
Windows 734
macOS 143

Python Versions

3.11
46.1% 8.9K
3.12
35.6% 6.9K
3.13
7.9% 1.5K
3.10
7.0% 1.3K
3.14
3.4% 659

Top Countries

1. US US
13.4K
2. SG SG
4.1K
3. DE DE
881
4. GB GB
343
5. IN IN
255
6. FR FR
211
7. DK DK
195
8. CN CN
159
9. FI FI
142
10. IE IE
135

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
April 22, 2015
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.0
Total Releases
41
Contributors
64
Open PRs
46
Archived
No
Author
Vadim Kravcenko
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
pip requirements imports
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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