No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pykafka has 151K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 2.8.0, first published in 2012.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2018.
It is used by 9 tracked packages, including tensorwatchext, enrichsdk and kafka-client-decorators.
GitHub topics include kafka, c-extension and apache-kafka.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
66
Adoption
51
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2583 days ago
Monthly downloads
150,852
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
150,852
Stars
1,121
Stars per 1k downloads
7.43
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
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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
2,051
Month daily avg
5,028
Momentum
-59.2%
((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
Apache License 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
2842 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
2.7
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
63
Monthly downloads
150,852
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
71
Issue Burden
55.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
258d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.8K
Python Versions
3.8
85.4%
1.5K
3.10
5.5%
97
3.7
4.1%
73
3.9
3.2%
57
3.11
1.7%
31
Top Countries
1.
SG
1.4K
SG
2.
US
376
US
3.
FR
43
FR
4.
ES
9
ES
5.
NL
9
NL
6.
DE
2
DE
7.
IE
2
IE
8.
PT
2
PT
9.
GB
1
GB
10.
HK
1
HK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
August 3, 2012
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
7 years ago
Latest Version
2.8.0
Total Releases
37
Contributors
63
Open PRs
18
Archived
Yes
Author
Keith Bourgoin and Emmett Butler
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh