No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyinotify has 3.9M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.9.3, first published in 2011.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2016.
It is used by 29 tracked packages, including rattail, dwho and diycrate.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
72
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4051 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,861,663
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
3,861,663
Stars
2,309
Stars per 1k downloads
0.60
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
37,701
Month daily avg
128,722
Momentum
-70.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
MIT License
•
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
3819 days ago
Total releases
7
Releases/year
0.5
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
10
Monthly downloads
3,861,663
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
54
Issue Burden
25.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
18.4K
Windows
5
macOS
4
Python Versions
3.11
46.5%
7.9K
3.9
36.7%
6.3K
3.6
8.2%
1.4K
3.10
5.3%
913
3.8
3.2%
553
Top Countries
1.
CN
13.6K
CN
2.
US
2.6K
US
3.
CA
711
CA
4.
SG
617
SG
5.
DE
265
DE
6.
GB
154
GB
7.
MX
75
MX
8.
HK
70
HK
9.
IN
48
IN
10.
FI
37
FI
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
29
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
January 16, 2011
Last Release
10 years ago
Last Commit
11 years ago
Latest Version
0.9.3
Total Releases
7
Contributors
10
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Author
Sebastien Martini
Python Versions
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
3
3.0
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh