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polyfile-weave

A pure Python cleanroom implementation of libmagic, with instrumented parsing from Kaitai struct and an interactive hex viewer
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

polyfile-weave has 1.1M monthly downloads and 2 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.9 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2025.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is built on top of abnf, chardet and cint. It is used by 1 tracked package, including weave.

Downloads
Day
27.6K
Week
215.6K
Month
1.1M
Stars
2
Forks
2
Issues
0
Version
0.5.9

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
45
Popularity
11
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
165 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,080,839
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
1,080,839
Stars
2
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
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
30,803
Month daily avg
36,028
Momentum
-14.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
Apache Software 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
165 days ago
Total releases
5
Releases/year
5.3
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
1
Monthly downloads
1,080,839
• 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
5
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 13.2K
Windows 112
macOS 107

Python Versions

3.12
49.9% 6.6K
3.11
18.7% 2.5K
3.10
17.3% 2.3K
3.13
12.1% 1.6K
3.14
2.0% 258

Top Countries

1. US US
11.6K
2. IN IN
617
3. MY MY
346
4. JP JP
300
5. GB GB
176
6. SG SG
97
7. NL NL
93
8. DE DE
69
9. CN CN
43
10. IL IL
30

Dependencies

14
4 optional dependencies

Used By

1

Package Information

License
Apache Software License
First Release
July 25, 2025
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.9
Total Releases
5
Contributors
1
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Trail of Bits
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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