No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
polyscope has 272K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.6.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2020.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2026.
It is built on top of numpy and typing-extensions. It is used by 18 tracked packages, including pyuipc, fetoflow and fast-cody.
Provenance Mismatch
This package's publish attestation (PEP 740) proves it builds from nmwsharp/polyscope-py, not the linked nmwsharp/polyscope. Stars and other GitHub metrics shown here come from the claimed repository.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
70
Adoption
64
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
64 days ago
Monthly downloads
272,466
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
272,466
Stars
2,180
Stars per 1k downloads
8.00
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
8,197
Month daily avg
9,082
Momentum
-9.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
130 days ago
Total releases
30
Releases/year
4.8
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
35
Monthly downloads
272,466
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
51.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
65d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.4K
Windows
46
macOS
12
Python Versions
3.12
69.3%
997
3.11
18.0%
259
3.13
9.1%
131
3.10
3.0%
43
3.8
0.6%
9
Top Countries
1.
US
1.7K
US
2.
CN
571
CN
3.
FR
368
FR
4.
ID
256
ID
5.
DE
49
DE
6.
KR
21
KR
7.
BR
18
BR
8.
VN
17
VN
9.
SG
16
SG
10.
JP
14
JP
Dependencies
2
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
March 26, 2020
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2.6.1
Total Releases
30
Contributors
35
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh