No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyshark has 1M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.6, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2023.
It is used by 49 tracked packages, including pcapprocessor, ps-banshee and psplpy.
GitHub topics include tshark, packet-capture and capture-packets.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1061 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
74
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
106 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,016,977
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
1,016,977
Stars
2,487
Stars per 1k downloads
2.45
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
31,785
Month daily avg
33,899
Momentum
-6.2%
((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
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
1167 days ago
Total releases
46
Releases/year
3.7
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
75
Monthly downloads
1,016,977
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
47.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1061d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
16.8K
Windows
717
macOS
48
Python Versions
3.8
32.4%
5.1K
3.12
27.7%
4.4K
3.10
18.5%
2.9K
3.7
11.3%
1.8K
3.11
10.2%
1.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
15.0K
US
2.
CH
889
CH
3.
RO
408
RO
4.
CA
220
CA
5.
CN
147
CN
6.
DE
135
DE
7.
IN
120
IN
8.
IL
97
IL
9.
FI
96
FI
10.
RU
96
RU
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
49
- pcapprocessor
- ps-banshee
- psplpy
- lpw
- ipradar2
- kyoushi-dataset
- pyrcrack
- toolsz
- guerrilla-aaron
- polymorph
- fieldedge-pcap
- lqmt
- dj-arp-storm
- pim-sm
- pufferrelay
- dnssec-cli
- pcap2har
- pcapana
- pqbit
- py-opensourceris-gui
- ticktracer
- ise-pyshark
- multicast-dpi-system
- pyicarus
- wireshark-fieldbus-io
- parse-pcap
- pxgrid-pyshark
- wifigaze
- iflow-mcp-khuynh22-mcp-wireshark
- ids-iforest
- iflow-mcp-a-g-u-p-t-a-pyshark-mcp
- pktai
- thewatcher
- pcapx
- packetwhiz-nfa
- packet-capture-module
- pcap-ioc
- latency-scout
- xiwa-modules
- pxgrid-pyshark-test
- pcap2map
- wire-exporter
- simpcap
- ranshark-drawranflow
- ranshark
- iflow-mcp-wireshark-mcp
- nagato-network
- network-traffic-parser
- drawranflow
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 11, 2014
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.6
Total Releases
46
Contributors
75
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Author
KimiNewt
Python Versions
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh