No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
praw has 1.9M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 8.0.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of defusedxml, prawcore and typing-extensions. It is used by 163 tracked packages, including flowtask, library and xklb.
GitHub topics include reddit, api and oauth.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
77
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,856,068
•
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
1,856,068
Stars
4,185
Stars per 1k downloads
2.25
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
53,902
Month daily avg
61,869
Momentum
-12.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
BSD 2-Clause 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
13 days ago
Total releases
135
Releases/year
9.6
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
188
Monthly downloads
1,856,068
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
46
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
37.7%
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
44.6K
macOS
1.0K
Windows
784
Python Versions
3.11
39.1%
16.9K
3.12
29.3%
12.7K
3.10
13.0%
5.6K
3.14
11.9%
5.2K
3.13
6.7%
2.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
40.9K
US
2.
BE
1.0K
BE
3.
IE
953
IE
4.
NL
804
NL
5.
DE
483
DE
6.
IN
350
IN
7.
CN
302
CN
8.
SG
298
SG
9.
HK
128
HK
10.
FR
112
FR
Dependencies
5
- defusedxml ==0.7.1
- prawcore <5,>=4
- typing-extensions
- update-checker <2.0,>=1.0
- websocket-client <2,>=0.54.0
Used By
163
- flowtask
- library
- xklb
- fudstop2
- adauto
- par-ai-core
- reddit-mcp
- oauth-dropins
- openbb-terminal-nightly
- orange3-textable-prototypes
- knewkarma
- granary
- botterino
- robolson
- orallexa-marketing-agent
- tradingcrew
- llama-index-readers-reddit
- reddit2text
- crunchy-bot
- pyspur
- reddit-image-downloader
- scrapeddit
- reddit-research-mcp
- autopost
- rcounting
- reddit-mcp-tool
- profile-reddit-restapi-imp-local
- vegmod
- lollmsbot
- tabber
- growth-tools
- objection-engine
- pyborg
- credmgr
- red-reddit-cli
- reddit-explorer-mcp
- mcp-server-trending
- dotagent
- keep-up-with
- recho
- stock-utilities
- conversationinferencetree
- social-scraper-tool
- csc121
- shreddit-cli
- reddacted
- shreddit
- sirifi
- reddit-market-research
- enlightenme
Package Information
License
BSD 2-Clause License
First Release
July 1, 2012
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
8.0.2
Total Releases
135
Contributors
188
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh