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pycairo

Python bindings for cairo
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pycairo has 3.5M monthly downloads and 696 GitHub stars. Version 1.29.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2017.

It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is used by 164 tracked packages, including rlpycairo, pygobject and weblate.

GitHub topics include cairo.

Downloads
Day
76.0K
Week
548.2K
Month
3.5M
Stars
696
Forks
92
Issues
39
Version
1.29.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
59
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
69 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,490,459
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
3,490,459
Stars
696
Stars per 1k downloads
0.20
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
78,319
Month daily avg
116,349
Momentum
-32.7%
((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
LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-1.1
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
237 days ago
Total releases
41
Releases/year
4.8
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
30
Monthly downloads
3,490,459
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
56.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
167d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 49.3K
Windows 3.2K
macOS 1.4K

Python Versions

3.12
53.3% 26.0K
3.14
13.1% 6.4K
3.13
12.3% 6.0K
3.11
11.6% 5.7K
3.10
9.7% 4.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
42.2K
2. IN IN
1.6K
3. DE DE
1.2K
4. CN CN
1.0K
5. RU RU
748
6. NL NL
688
7. SG SG
681
8. CA CA
520
9. GB GB
489
10. KR KR
451
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
LGPL-2.1-only OR MPL-1.1
First Release
December 7, 2017
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
1.29.0
Total Releases
41
Contributors
30
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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