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ply

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

ply has 43M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 3.11, first published in 2012.

Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2018.

It is used by 374 tracked packages, including spdx-tools, bc-jsonpath-ng and luqum.

Downloads
Day
1.3M
Week
9.4M
Month
43.0M
Stars
2.9K
Forks
478
Issues
6
Version
3.11

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
6
Popularity
75
Adoption
70
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
197 days ago
Monthly downloads
42,956,257
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
42,956,257
Stars
2,912
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
• 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
1,340,494
Month daily avg
1,431,875
Momentum
-6.4%
((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
BSD
• 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
3063 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
0.4
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
34
Monthly downloads
42,956,257
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
63
 
Issue Burden
2.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2865d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 686.0K
Windows 11.4K
macOS 6.1K

Python Versions

3.12
38.2% 229.4K
3.11
25.4% 152.8K
3.10
13.8% 83.2K
3.13
12.0% 72.3K
3.9
10.5% 62.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
562.9K
2. IE IE
39.0K
3. NL NL
16.4K
4. DE DE
14.5K
5. SG SG
11.6K
6. GB GB
11.2K
7. JP JP
10.0K
8. HK HK
9.3K
9. CA CA
7.8K
10. IN IN
6.2K

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
April 18, 2012
Last Release
8 years ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
3.11
Total Releases
6
Contributors
34
Open PRs
9
Archived
Yes
Author
David Beazley
Python Versions
2 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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