Monthly downloads
391.0K
Weekly downloads
76.2K
GitHub stars
489
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.7
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Last Release
7 months ago
First Release
February 3, 2014
Total Releases
96
Python Versions
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 167 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
56
Adoption
55
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
43 days ago
Monthly downloads
390,992
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
390,992
Stars
489
Stars per 1k downloads
1.25
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
10,880
Month daily avg
13,033
Momentum
-16.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-3-Clause
•
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
210 days ago
Total releases
96
Releases/year
7.6
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
37
Monthly downloads
390,992
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
4.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
167d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
10.1K
macOS
211
Windows
64
Python Versions
3.12
33.0%
3.3K
3.11
30.4%
3.0K
3.10
24.2%
2.4K
3.14
6.6%
648
3.13
5.8%
574
Top Countries
1.
US
9.2K
US
2.
SG
431
SG
3.
IE
174
IE
4.
HK
128
HK
5.
CN
112
CN
6.
DE
69
DE
7.
JP
66
JP
8.
GB
53
GB
9.
IN
49
IN
10.
BE
46
BE
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
2
-
importlib-metadata
python_version < "3.8"
- packaging
Used By
170
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- pyensembl 53.1K/mo
- gffutils 46.1K/mo
- alphagenome 39.6K/mo
- refgenie 38.5K/mo
- genomepy 29.7K/mo
- tangermeme 29.6K/mo
- enformer-pytorch 28.4K/mo
- memelite 28.4K/mo
- ncbi-datasets-pylib 17.5K/mo
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh