No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pytest-dotenv has 5.2M monthly downloads and 211 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.2, first published in 2016.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2020.
It is built on top of pytest and python-dotenv. It is used by 17 tracked packages, including transpara-sdk, dbt-odps-winwin and instrumentaipdfsplitter.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 7 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
6
Popularity
45
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
341 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,229,821
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
5,229,821
Stars
211
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
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
165,333
Month daily avg
174,327
Momentum
-5.2%
((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 License
•
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
2211 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
0.9
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
7
Monthly downloads
5,229,821
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
39
Issue Burden
47.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1870d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
60.0K
macOS
1.8K
Windows
1.6K
Python Versions
3.12
45.4%
26.9K
3.11
20.2%
12.0K
3.13
17.0%
10.1K
3.14
9.1%
5.4K
3.10
8.3%
4.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
44.9K
US
2.
SG
4.7K
SG
3.
JP
3.4K
JP
4.
GB
3.2K
GB
5.
DE
1.1K
DE
6.
IE
951
IE
7.
AE
944
AE
8.
NL
834
NL
9.
BE
736
BE
10.
FR
543
FR
Dependencies
2
- pytest >=5.0.0
- python-dotenv >=0.9.1
Package Information
License
MIT License
First Release
June 13, 2016
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
11 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.2
Total Releases
9
Contributors
7
Open PRs
4
Archived
Yes
Author
Marcel Radischat
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh