No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyexcel-xls has 1.8M monthly downloads and 47 GitHub stars. Version 0.7.1 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2025.
It is built on top of pyexcel-io, xlrd and xlwt. It is used by 18 tracked packages, including cleanlab-studio, filum-utils and xlin.
GitHub topics include xls.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
- Moderate bus factor: only 6 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
37
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
445 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,773,449
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
1,773,449
Stars
47
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
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
63,848
Month daily avg
59,115
Momentum
+8.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
New BSD
•
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
486 days ago
Total releases
33
Releases/year
2.8
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
6
Monthly downloads
1,773,449
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
39
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.1%
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
23.5K
Windows
101
macOS
36
Python Versions
3.10
71.9%
16.8K
3.11
14.6%
3.4K
3.12
11.9%
2.8K
3.13
1.1%
251
3.14
0.5%
118
Top Countries
1.
HK
16.2K
HK
2.
NL
2.3K
NL
3.
IE
2.3K
IE
4.
US
2.2K
US
5.
CN
255
CN
6.
SG
84
SG
7.
GB
79
GB
8.
FR
48
FR
9.
IN
48
IN
10.
RO
48
RO
Dependencies
3
- pyexcel-io >=0.6.2
- xlrd
- xlwt
Package Information
License
New BSD
First Release
December 7, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.7.1
Total Releases
33
Contributors
6
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
C.W.
Python Versions
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh