PyRank
pypdfium2-team

pypdfium2

Python bindings to PDFium, reasonably cross-platform.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
1.8M
Week
10.5M
Month
42.9M
Stars
767
Forks
44
Issues
1
Version
5.8.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
56
Adoption
80
Community
10
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
42,871,680
• 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
42,871,680
Stars
767
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
1,500,564
Month daily avg
1,429,056
Momentum
+5.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0, dependency licenses
• 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
18 days ago
Total releases
129
Releases/year
28.9
• 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
6
Monthly downloads
42,871,680
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
37
 
Issue Burden
1.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
67.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 854.5K
Windows 67.3K
macOS 23.4K

Python Versions

3.12
44.2% 408.1K
3.13
22.7% 210.1K
3.11
19.8% 183.1K
3.14
7.4% 68.7K
3.10
5.9% 54.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
696.1K
2. FI FI
30.6K
3. IN IN
23.5K
4. SG SG
22.5K
5. CN CN
20.9K
6. DE DE
19.2K
7. FR FR
16.9K
8. NL NL
15.0K
9. IE IE
13.8K
10. JP JP
12.2K

GitHub Topics

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

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause, Apache-2.0, dependency licenses
First Release
December 3, 2021
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
5.8.0
Total Releases
129
Contributors
6
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
pypdfium2-team
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
pdf pdfium
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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