Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
28
Adoption
80
Community
45
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
421 days ago
Monthly downloads
113,517
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
113,517
Stars
26
Stars per 1k downloads
0.23
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
4,491
Month daily avg
3,784
Momentum
+18.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
•
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
421 days ago
Total releases
7
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
8
Monthly downloads
113,517
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
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
133.3%
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
3.2K
macOS
244
Windows
29
Python Versions
3.14
33.2%
1.2K
3.11
29.8%
1.0K
3.12
20.6%
714
3.13
9.1%
316
3.10
7.2%
250
Top Countries
1.
US
3.1K
US
2.
SG
104
SG
3.
DE
99
DE
4.
NL
80
NL
5.
AU
48
AU
6.
CA
43
CA
7.
FR
34
FR
8.
RU
34
RU
9.
GB
24
GB
10.
CZ
23
CZ
Dependencies
1
Used By
37
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Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 7, 2023
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.16
Total Releases
7
Contributors
8
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
pySerial-team
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh