No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pytest-messenger has 2M monthly downloads and 67 GitHub stars. Version 3.3.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2020.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2022.
GitHub topics include pytest, pytest-plugin and slack.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
37
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1320 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,033,483
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
2,033,483
Stars
67
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
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
65,887
Month daily avg
67,783
Momentum
-2.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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 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
1320 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
0.7
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
114
Monthly downloads
2,033,483
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
60
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
876.9%
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
63.1K
Windows
4
macOS
1
Python Versions
3.11
98.6%
62.2K
3.10
1.3%
841
3.12
0.0%
9
3.9
0.0%
3
3.13
0.0%
2
Top Countries
1.
IE
61.8K
IE
2.
US
1.3K
US
3.
DE
6
DE
4.
AU
2
AU
5.
FR
2
FR
6.
BR
1
BR
7.
CA
1
CA
8.
FI
1
FI
9.
GB
1
GB
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT license
First Release
December 15, 2020
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
3.3.0
Total Releases
4
Contributors
114
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
LaserPhaser
Python Versions
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh