Monthly downloads
439.7K
Weekly downloads
115.4K
GitHub stars
592
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.9
Licence
BSD-3-Clause
Last Release
4 months ago
Author
Emmanuel Blot
First Release
October 25, 2011
Total Releases
58
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
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
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
62
Adoption
86
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
136 days ago
Monthly downloads
439,714
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
439,714
Stars
592
Stars per 1k downloads
1.35
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
16,491
Month daily avg
14,657
Momentum
+12.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
136 days ago
Total releases
58
Releases/year
3.9
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
47
Monthly downloads
439,714
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
88
Issue Burden
162.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
37.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
7.0K
macOS
1.2K
Windows
754
Python Versions
3.12
40.5%
3.4K
3.13
23.7%
2.0K
3.11
21.7%
1.8K
3.14
8.9%
748
3.10
5.2%
440
Top Countries
1.
US
5.3K
US
2.
NZ
956
NZ
3.
GB
756
GB
4.
DE
338
DE
5.
AU
271
AU
6.
NO
197
NO
7.
BE
160
BE
8.
JP
155
JP
9.
TW
141
TW
10.
IN
118
IN
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
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