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pyhcl

HCL is a configuration language. pyhcl is a python parser for it.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyhcl has 9.7M monthly downloads and 341 GitHub stars. Version 0.4.5, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Sep 2023.

It is used by 30 tracked packages, including infrahouse-toolkit, parse-it and runway.

GitHub topics include hcl and configuration.

Downloads
Day
324.9K
Week
2.2M
Month
9.7M
Stars
341
Forks
57
Issues
8
Version
0.4.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
53
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
168 days ago
Monthly downloads
9,744,253
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
9,744,253
Stars
341
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
317,100
Month daily avg
324,808
Momentum
-2.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)
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
1040 days ago
Total releases
40
Releases/year
3.4
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
15
Monthly downloads
9,744,253
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
51
 
Issue Burden
23.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
871d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 267.3K
Windows 138
macOS 77

Python Versions

3.10
36.4% 76.7K
3.7
22.3% 46.9K
3.12
17.7% 37.3K
3.11
13.5% 28.4K
3.9
10.1% 21.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
239.6K
2. IE IE
9.3K
3. DE DE
4.3K
4. IN IN
3.8K
5. BE BE
2.8K
6. AU AU
2.6K
7. BR BR
1.6K
8. GB GB
896
9. UA UA
766
10. NL NL
620
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Mozilla Public License 2.0 (MPL 2.0)
First Release
September 9, 2014
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
0.4.5
Total Releases
40
Contributors
15
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Dustin Spicuzza
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.3 3.4
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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