PyRank
cdgriffith

puremagic

Pure python implementation of identifying files based off their magic numbers
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

puremagic has 12M monthly downloads and 239 GitHub stars. Version 2.2.0 supports Python 3.12+, first published in 2016.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.

It is used by 123 tracked packages, including openhands-aci, visions and emails.

Downloads
Day
259.2K
Week
1.9M
Month
12.0M
Stars
239
Forks
43
Issues
2
Version
2.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
49
Adoption
60
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
90 days ago
Monthly downloads
12,045,736
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
12,045,736
Stars
239
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
267,910
Month daily avg
401,525
Momentum
-33.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.12
• 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
• 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
90 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
3.7
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
17
Monthly downloads
12,045,736
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
45
 
Issue Burden
8.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.5%
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 99.0K
Windows 7.3K
macOS 5.2K

Python Versions

3.12
40.3% 37.8K
3.13
24.4% 22.9K
3.11
18.9% 17.8K
3.14
8.9% 8.4K
3.10
7.4% 7.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
73.6K
2. SG SG
22.5K
3. DE DE
2.1K
4. NL NL
1.6K
5. JP JP
1.4K
6. IE IE
1.1K
7. IN IN
959
8. FR FR
894
9. HK HK
818
10. CA CA
817

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 15, 2016
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
2.2.0
Total Releases
35
Contributors
17
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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