No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pychromecast has 166K monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 14.0.10 supports Python 3.11.0+, first published in 2014.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.
It is built on top of casttube, protobuf and zeroconf. It is used by 26 tracked packages, including spotifywebapipython, catt and domesti-bot.
GitHub topics include cast, chromecast and chromecast-audio.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 113 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
73
Adoption
82
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
165,556
•
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
165,556
Stars
2,672
Stars per 1k downloads
16.14
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
6,194
Month daily avg
5,519
Momentum
+12.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11.0
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
121 days ago
Total releases
134
Releases/year
10.9
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
93
Monthly downloads
165,556
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
69
Issue Burden
54.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
113d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.0K
macOS
560
Windows
392
Python Versions
3.14
34.5%
1.7K
3.11
31.5%
1.5K
3.12
17.3%
835
3.13
11.6%
559
3.10
5.1%
244
Top Countries
1.
US
4.5K
US
2.
FR
181
FR
3.
DE
70
DE
4.
NL
68
NL
5.
IT
62
IT
6.
CA
58
CA
7.
CH
43
CH
8.
GB
43
GB
9.
AU
40
AU
10.
SE
33
SE
Used By
26
- spotifywebapipython
- catt
- domesti-bot
- ovos-media-plugin-chromecast
- fluxcast
- jellytoast
- isponsorblocktv
- cattqt
- displaycal
- cast-control
- castme
- cast-cli
- terminalcast
- googlehomepush
- p-cast
- chromecast-volumecontrol
- androidtvmcp
- nima-cast
- ccastplayer
- kast
- commoncast
- greenscreen-control
- skippex
- castlocal
- google-alert
- twitch-fapi-backend
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 5, 2014
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
14.0.10
Total Releases
134
Contributors
93
Open PRs
16
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh