No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyscaffold has 5.8M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 4.6 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2024.
It is built on top of colorama, configupdater and importlib-metadata. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including uniovi-simur-wearablepermed-ml, pyscaffoldext-clickstart and biocsetup.
GitHub topics include release-automation, git and distribution.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
69
Adoption
100
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
637 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,812,952
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
5,812,952
Stars
2,259
Stars per 1k downloads
0.39
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
345,783
Month daily avg
193,765
Momentum
+78.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
MIT
•
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
652 days ago
Total releases
179
Releases/year
14.6
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
46
Monthly downloads
5,812,952
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
72
Issue Burden
13.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
30.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.3%
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
274.5K
macOS
14
Windows
3
Python Versions
3.8
98.1%
269.1K
3.10
1.1%
2.9K
3.11
0.6%
1.7K
3.9
0.2%
554
3.12
0.0%
92
Top Countries
1.
HK
260.6K
HK
2.
SG
7.9K
SG
3.
NL
3.9K
NL
4.
US
1.2K
US
5.
IN
526
IN
6.
DE
290
DE
7.
BE
36
BE
8.
CN
30
CN
9.
IE
24
IE
10.
RU
15
RU
Dependencies
8
- colorama >=0.4.4
- configupdater <4,>=3.0
- importlib-metadata
- packaging >=20.7
- platformdirs >=2
- setuptools >=46.1.0
- setuptools-scm >=5
- tomlkit <2,>=0.7.0
25 optional dependencies
- build[testing]
- certifi[testing]
- flake8[testing]
- pre-commit[all]
- pre-commit[testing]
- pyscaffoldext-cookiecutter[all]
- pyscaffoldext-custom-extension[all]
- pyscaffoldext-django[all]
- pyscaffoldext-dsproject[all]
- pyscaffoldext-dsproject[ds]
- pyscaffoldext-markdown[md]
- pyscaffoldext-markdown[all]
- pyscaffoldext-travis[all]
- pytest[testing]
- pytest-cov[testing]
- pytest-randomly[testing]
- pytest-xdist[testing]
- setuptools[testing]
- setuptools-scm[testing]
- sphinx[testing]
- tomlkit[testing]
- tox[testing]
- virtualenv[all]
- virtualenv[testing]
- wheel[testing]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
April 11, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
4.6
Total Releases
179
Contributors
46
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Florian Wilhelm
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh