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python-barcode

㊙️ Create standard barcodes with Python. No external dependencies. 100% Organic Python.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-barcode has 2M monthly downloads and 654 GitHub stars. Version 0.16.0, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is used by 66 tracked packages, including radboy, brazilfiscalreport and django-resaas.

GitHub topics include barcode, pure-python and svg.

Downloads
Day
77.5K
Week
494.3K
Month
2.0M
Stars
654
Forks
135
Issues
49
Version
0.16.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
60
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,951,420
• 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
1,951,420
Stars
654
Stars per 1k downloads
0.34
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
70,614
Month daily avg
65,047
Momentum
+8.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
313 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
1.6
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
38
Monthly downloads
1,951,420
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
68
 
Issue Burden
74.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
302d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 49.5K
Windows 1.3K
macOS 418

Python Versions

3.12
50.3% 24.8K
3.11
15.4% 7.6K
3.10
13.9% 6.8K
3.13
11.9% 5.8K
3.14
8.5% 4.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
36.2K
2. SE SE
1.7K
3. DE DE
1.4K
4. FI FI
1.1K
5. SG SG
1.0K
6. CA CA
930
7. IN IN
793
8. GB GB
658
9. FR FR
653
10. CZ CZ
492
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
October 12, 2017
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.16.0
Total Releases
14
Contributors
38
Open PRs
13
Archived
No
Author
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera et al
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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