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prance

Resolving Swagger/OpenAPI 2.0 and 3.0 Parser
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

prance has 6.2M monthly downloads and 262 GitHub stars. Version 25.4.8.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2025.

It is built on top of chardet, packaging and requests. It is used by 62 tracked packages, including semantic-kernel, bedrock-agentcore-starter-toolkit and trcli.

GitHub topics include swagger, openapi and resolver.

Downloads
Day
176.3K
Week
1.3M
Month
6.2M
Stars
262
Forks
48
Issues
27
Version
25.4.8.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
50
Adoption
60
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
233 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,174,184
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
6,174,184
Stars
262
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
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
178,721
Month daily avg
205,806
Momentum
-13.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
MITNFA
• 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
455 days ago
Total releases
45
Releases/year
4.6
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
22
Monthly downloads
6,174,184
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
103.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
11.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
45.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
221d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 68.0K
Windows 905
macOS 894

Python Versions

3.13
45.6% 30.9K
3.11
22.8% 15.4K
3.12
22.0% 14.9K
3.10
4.9% 3.3K
3.14
4.7% 3.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
47.8K
2. NL NL
3.8K
3. DE DE
3.7K
4. JP JP
3.3K
5. SG SG
2.8K
6. IE IE
2.7K
7. SE SE
1.8K
8. GB GB
636
9. AU AU
409
10. FI FI
407
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MITNFA
First Release
September 8, 2016
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
25.4.8.0
Total Releases
45
Contributors
22
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Jens Finkhaeuser
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
swagger openapi parsing
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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