No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyahocorasick has 5.9M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 2.3.1 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is used by 113 tracked packages, including eyecite, pywxdump and scancode-toolkit.
GitHub topics include string-manipulation, automaton and aho-corasick.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
71 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,866,322
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
5,866,322
Stars
1,108
Stars per 1k downloads
0.19
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
158,992
Month daily avg
195,544
Momentum
-18.7%
((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-3-Clause and Public-Domain
•
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
71 days ago
Total releases
31
Releases/year
2.7
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
27
Monthly downloads
5,866,322
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
52
Issue Burden
23.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.1%
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
80.8K
Windows
4.0K
macOS
960
Python Versions
3.10
39.0%
32.4K
3.12
30.1%
25.0K
3.11
13.4%
11.2K
3.13
13.0%
10.9K
3.14
4.5%
3.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
67.7K
US
2.
JP
2.5K
JP
3.
IE
2.0K
IE
4.
NL
1.9K
NL
5.
GB
1.8K
GB
6.
KR
1.0K
KR
7.
CN
1.0K
CN
8.
SG
947
SG
9.
DE
928
DE
10.
IN
844
IN
Dependencies
0
4 optional dependencies
- pytest[testing]
- setuptools[testing]
- twine[testing]
- wheel[testing]
Used By
113
- eyecite
- pywxdump
- scancode-toolkit
- goose3
- multiregex
- ethyca-fides
- opennmt-py
- alphabase
- mvt
- estnltk
- find-job-titles
- maskerlogger
- fidesplus
- langchain-timbr
- kazu
- seismic-rna
- jaat
- agentsweep
- anchor-audit
- diffenator2
- pdf-craft
- ovos-classifiers
- scancode-toolkit-mini
- openmaskit
- maze-moderation-sdk
- pycorrector
- aengus
- tide2
- zhtw
- eole
- haruka-parser
- maque
- scan4secrets
- cute-tokenizer
- alexandria3k
- dingo-python
- monapipe
- rsfc
- vital-llm-reasoner
- altex-be
- vampire-tr
- countrytagger
- py-secret-scan
- armor-ai
- defluff
- bewer
- mcp-governor
- geoextract
- cutword
- ricco
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause and Public-Domain
First Release
November 25, 2014
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2.3.1
Total Releases
31
Contributors
27
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Wojciech Muła
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh