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polib

Pure python library to manipulate, create, modify gettext files (pot, po and mo files).
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

polib has 6.3M monthly downloads and 133 GitHub stars. Version 1.2.0, first published in 2006.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2023.

It is used by 140 tracked packages, including semantic-link-labs, sphinx-lint and django-rosetta.

GitHub topics include gettext, pofile and i18n.

Downloads
Day
204.0K
Week
1.4M
Month
6.3M
Stars
133
Forks
38
Issues
30
Version
1.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
45
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
542 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,289,836
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
6,289,836
Stars
133
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
195,684
Month daily avg
209,661
Momentum
-6.7%
((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
1229 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
1.3
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
24
Monthly downloads
6,289,836
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
69
 
Issue Burden
225.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
63.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
686d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 132.0K
Windows 1.9K
macOS 1.4K

Python Versions

3.11
60.3% 79.6K
3.12
20.9% 27.6K
3.14
6.3% 8.3K
3.10
6.2% 8.2K
3.13
6.2% 8.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
83.3K
2. IE IE
15.5K
3. NL NL
15.1K
4. FR FR
4.1K
5. SG SG
3.3K
6. AU AU
2.8K
7. GB GB
2.8K
8. DE DE
1.9K
9. CA CA
795
10. IN IN
681
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 9, 2006
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.2.0
Total Releases
25
Contributors
24
Open PRs
16
Archived
No
Author
David Jean Louis
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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