PyRank
pylint-dev

pylint

It's not just a linter that annoys you!
PyPI GitHub

Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (pylint-dev/pylint) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
1.9M
Week
11.6M
Month
48.5M
Stars
5.7K
Forks
1.2K
Issues
1.0K
Version
4.0.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
82
Adoption
80
Community
90
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
48,483,395
• 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
48,483,395
Stars
5,684
Stars per 1k downloads
0.12
• 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
1,662,478
Month daily avg
1,616,113
Momentum
+2.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10.0
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
GPL-2.0-or-later
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
91 days ago
Total releases
201
Releases/year
11.6
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
557
Monthly downloads
48,483,395
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
76
 
Issue Burden
179.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
44.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
89d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 822.2K
Windows 17.1K
macOS 10.7K

Python Versions

3.12
37.1% 278.2K
3.11
31.5% 236.3K
3.13
12.2% 91.1K
3.10
12.0% 90.3K
3.14
7.1% 53.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
572.7K
2. IE IE
110.4K
3. GB GB
40.2K
4. DE DE
21.7K
5. NL NL
15.5K
6. SG SG
15.3K
7. FR FR
13.1K
8. IN IN
8.7K
9. HK HK
7.7K
10. AU AU
6.8K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GPL-2.0-or-later
First Release
January 27, 2009
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
4.0.5
Total Releases
201
Contributors
557
Open PRs
48
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
lint linter python static code analysis
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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