No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pynput has 2.4M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.8.2, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of enum34, evdev and pyobjc-framework-applicationservices. It is used by 713 tracked packages, including rpaframework, lerobot and robosuite.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
71
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
56 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,350,995
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
2,350,995
Stars
2,159
Stars per 1k downloads
0.92
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
65,389
Month daily avg
78,366
Momentum
-16.6%
((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
LGPLv3
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
56 days ago
Total releases
62
Releases/year
5.8
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
23
Monthly downloads
2,350,995
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
57
Issue Burden
76.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.1%
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
25.5K
Windows
14.0K
macOS
3.0K
Python Versions
3.12
42.5%
17.2K
3.11
20.6%
8.4K
3.13
12.4%
5.0K
3.10
12.4%
5.0K
3.14
12.1%
4.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
26.5K
US
2.
CN
2.2K
CN
3.
IE
1.3K
IE
4.
DE
1.1K
DE
5.
IN
950
IN
6.
SG
875
SG
7.
GB
779
GB
8.
HK
652
HK
9.
JP
569
JP
10.
PL
498
PL
Dependencies
6
- enum34
- evdev >=1.3
- pyobjc-framework-applicationservices >=8.0
- pyobjc-framework-quartz >=8.0
- python-xlib >=0.17
- six
Used By
713
- rpaframework
- lerobot
- robosuite
- cua-auto
- gamesentenceminer
- meeting-helper
- rpaframework-windows
- os-sys
- cua-computer-server
- qweb
- pygpt-net
- supervertaler
- capcat
- systemu
- pyorbbecsdk2
- teambot-ai
- gambaterm
- gym-hil
- pydotbot
- gitcast
- faster-whisper-hotkey
- ai-interview-assistant
- modulitiz-micro
- ptsrvtester
- shotquill
- ajpack
- olly-desktop
- myra-ai-assistant
- dictare
- cua-client
- desklab
- avrvx
- quickpad
- synapse-assistant-ai
- stttype
- chatroom-jianjun
- whisper-mic
- 01os
- vupai
- ai-tools-box
- condynsate
- whisper-ptt
- whisper-assistant
- abstractassistant
- pyhotkey
- clpymusic
- imageui
- ytm-player
- argus-overview
- blurt
Package Information
License
LGPLv3
First Release
October 28, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.8.2
Total Releases
62
Contributors
23
Open PRs
31
Archived
No
Author
Moses Palmér
Python Versions
2.7
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh