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portpicker

A module to find available network ports for testing.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

portpicker has 2.9M monthly downloads and 149 GitHub stars. Version 1.6.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2015.

Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2023.

It is used by 68 tracked packages, including grain, ai-edge-model-explorer and mobly.

Downloads
Day
81.8K
Week
640.4K
Month
2.9M
Stars
149
Forks
60
Issues
3
Version
1.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
6
Popularity
48
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1057 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,901,134
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
2,901,134
Stars
149
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
91,492
Month daily avg
96,704
Momentum
-5.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
1057 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
1.2
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
23
Monthly downloads
2,901,134
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
49
 
Issue Burden
20.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
38.3%
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 27.3K
Windows 898
macOS 767

Python Versions

3.12
63.6% 18.1K
3.11
14.1% 4.0K
3.13
11.9% 3.4K
3.10
7.8% 2.2K
3.14
2.6% 731

Top Countries

1. US US
27.9K
2. SG SG
591
3. IE IE
193
4. NL NL
139
5. CA CA
135
6. IN IN
107
7. GB GB
96
8. CN CN
95
9. HK HK
84
10. FR FR
79

Package Information

License
Apache 2.0
First Release
March 21, 2015
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
1.6.0
Total Releases
14
Contributors
23
Open PRs
0
Archived
Yes
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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