PyRank
pygments

pygments

Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pygments has 1.2B monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.20.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2006.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is used by 3,307 tracked packages, including pytest, rich and textual.

GitHub topics include syntax-highlighting.

Downloads
Day
38.9M
Week
281.7M
Month
1.2B
Stars
2.2K
Forks
826
Issues
458
Version
2.20.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
75
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,239,240,621
• 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
1,239,240,621
Stars
2,179
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
40,241,635
Month daily avg
41,308,021
Momentum
-2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
BSD-2-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
99 days ago
Total releases
68
Releases/year
3.5
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
764
Monthly downloads
1,239,240,621
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
95
 
Issue Burden
210.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
17.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
92.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
97d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 30.7M
Windows 478.5K
macOS 312.6K

Python Versions

3.13
34.0% 10.2M
3.12
33.1% 10.0M
3.11
18.0% 5.4M
3.10
11.0% 3.3M
3.14
3.9% 1.2M

Top Countries

1. US US
22.6M
2. SG SG
2.9M
3. HK HK
1.2M
4. DE DE
580.7K
5. IE IE
511.0K
6. GB GB
349.5K
7. IN IN
341.5K
8. CA CA
338.7K
9. AU AU
276.5K
10. JP JP
275.8K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
October 30, 2006
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
2.20.0
Total Releases
68
Contributors
764
Open PRs
180
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
syntax highlighting
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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