Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1921 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
79
Adoption
80
Community
90
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
84 days ago
Monthly downloads
14,759,570
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
14,759,570
Stars
3,538
Stars per 1k downloads
0.24
•
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
502,138
Month daily avg
491,986
Momentum
+2.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
2006 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
0.8
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
89
Monthly downloads
14,759,570
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
87
Issue Burden
78.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
1.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1921d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
273.3K
Windows
24.2K
macOS
9.8K
Python Versions
3.12
41.9%
105.7K
3.11
21.2%
53.5K
3.10
13.9%
35.1K
3.13
13.6%
34.5K
3.7
9.4%
23.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
163.8K
US
2.
FR
37.5K
FR
3.
IL
21.3K
IL
4.
DE
10.2K
DE
5.
SG
6.7K
SG
6.
IN
6.2K
IN
7.
GB
6.0K
GB
8.
CN
4.8K
CN
9.
IT
4.2K
IT
10.
NL
3.4K
NL
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
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Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
June 19, 2008
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
3.5
Total Releases
15
Contributors
89
Open PRs
56
Archived
No
Author
Chris Liechti
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh