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pyperclip

Python module for cross-platform clipboard functions.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyperclip has 107.4M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.11.0, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.

It is used by 2,309 tracked packages, including mitmproxy, mistral-vibe and cmd2.

Downloads
Day
3.5M
Week
28.0M
Month
107.4M
Stars
1.8K
Forks
221
Issues
116
Version
1.11.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
69
Adoption
90
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
285 days ago
Monthly downloads
107,355,415
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
107,355,415
Stars
1,837
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
3,995,983
Month daily avg
3,578,514
Momentum
+11.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
BSD
• 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
285 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
3.8
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
36
Monthly downloads
107,355,415
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
59
 
Issue Burden
63.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.3%
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 2.5M
Windows 95.4K
macOS 23.8K

Python Versions

3.13
51.4% 1.3M
3.12
34.4% 896.6K
3.11
7.7% 200.9K
3.14
3.3% 86.3K
3.10
3.2% 83.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.1M
2. GB GB
131.1K
3. SG SG
86.1K
4. NL NL
79.6K
5. IN IN
36.9K
6. DE DE
30.7K
7. IE IE
27.5K
8. CN CN
21.0K
9. JP JP
18.1K
10. CA CA
16.7K

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
December 28, 2013
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
1.11.0
Total Releases
47
Contributors
36
Open PRs
19
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
clipboard copy paste clip xsel xclip
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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