No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyreadline3 has 7.5M monthly downloads and 69 GitHub stars. Version 3.5.6 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2020.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is used by 193 tracked packages, including pdbr, seleniumbase and fancycompleter.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
37
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
53 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,482,804
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
7,482,804
Stars
69
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
243,419
Month daily avg
249,427
Momentum
-2.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
•
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
53 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
2.6
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
12
Monthly downloads
7,482,804
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
44
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
92.3%
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
140.4K
Windows
51.2K
macOS
965
Python Versions
3.12
30.7%
56.8K
3.10
22.9%
42.4K
3.13
18.6%
34.5K
3.11
18.4%
34.0K
3.14
9.4%
17.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
150.2K
US
2.
CN
8.2K
CN
3.
JP
3.2K
JP
4.
GB
3.1K
GB
5.
IN
2.9K
IN
6.
DE
2.3K
DE
7.
SG
2.0K
SG
8.
NL
1.8K
NL
9.
FR
1.8K
FR
10.
IE
1.7K
IE
Used By
193
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- seleniumbase
- fancycompleter
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Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
October 21, 2020
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.5.6
Total Releases
15
Contributors
12
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh