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prospector-dev

prospector

Inspects Python source files and provides information about type and location of classes, methods etc
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

prospector has 470K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.19.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of dodgy, mccabe and packaging. It is used by 18 tracked packages, including prospector-profile-utils, prospector-profile-duplicated and insight-plugin.

GitHub topics include hactoberfest, linter and linters-config.

Downloads
Day
11.7K
Week
96.8K
Month
470.3K
Stars
2.1K
Forks
180
Issues
35
Version
1.19.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
69
Adoption
56
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
470,263
• 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
470,263
Stars
2,085
Stars per 1k downloads
4.43
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
13,826
Month daily avg
15,675
Momentum
-11.8%
((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
GPL-2.0-or-later
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
14 days ago
Total releases
145
Releases/year
11.4
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
86
Monthly downloads
470,263
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
53
 
Issue Burden
16.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.8%
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 4.7K
Windows 169
macOS 44

Python Versions

3.11
34.1% 1.3K
3.13
24.7% 946
3.12
23.5% 899
3.10
10.8% 414
3.14
6.9% 263

Top Countries

1. US US
3.7K
2. SG SG
563
3. IE IE
119
4. DE DE
115
5. CN CN
111
6. IN IN
70
7. HK HK
56
8. GB GB
42
9. BR BR
38
10. CH CH
32

Dependencies

14
12 optional dependencies

Used By

18
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GPL-2.0-or-later
First Release
October 25, 2013
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.19.0
Total Releases
145
Contributors
86
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Carl Crowder
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
prospector pylint static code analysis
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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