No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-can has 5M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 4.6.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is built on top of packaging, typing-extensions and wrapt. It is used by 175 tracked packages, including cantools, canopen and odxtools.
GitHub topics include can-bus.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 298 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
73
Adoption
60
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
30 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,959,030
•
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
4,959,030
Stars
1,566
Stars per 1k downloads
0.32
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
146,574
Month daily avg
165,301
Momentum
-11.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
LGPL-3.0-only
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
328 days ago
Total releases
74
Releases/year
6.9
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
188
Monthly downloads
4,959,030
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
97
Issue Burden
142.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
34.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
298d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
46.3K
Windows
1.5K
macOS
685
Python Versions
3.10
47.1%
22.2K
3.12
30.5%
14.4K
3.11
13.2%
6.2K
3.13
5.5%
2.6K
3.14
3.7%
1.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
39.2K
US
2.
DE
4.0K
DE
3.
SG
1.4K
SG
4.
IE
1.2K
IE
5.
CA
904
CA
6.
NL
902
NL
7.
SE
892
SE
8.
PL
798
PL
9.
AU
664
AU
10.
BE
556
BE
Dependencies
3
- packaging >=23.1
- typing-extensions >=3.10.0.0
- wrapt ~=1.10
19 optional dependencies
- asammdf[mf4]
- canalystii[canalystii]
- cantact[cantact]
- filelock[neovi]
- gs-usb[gs-usb]
- msgpack[multicast]
- nixnet[nixnet]
- pyserial[seeedstudio]
- pyserial[serial]
- python-can-candle[candle]
- python-can-canine[canine]
- python-can-cvector[cvector]
- python-can-remote[remote]
- python-can-sontheim[sontheim]
- python-ics[neovi]
- pywin32[pywin32]
- uptime[pcan]
- windows-curses[viewer]
- zlgcan[zlgcan]
Used By
175
- cantools
- canopen
- odxtools
- pyxcp
- remotivelabs-cli
- python-can-candle
- python-can-remote
- canopen-asyncio
- zlgcan
- pytrinamic
- nmea2000
- ingenialink
- andisdk
- j1939
- benchci
- cyclarity-in-vehicle-sdk
- pyblhost
- epicallypowerful
- oresat-olaf
- python-can-hub
- icotronic
- python-can-viewer
- python-can-csscan-mux
- epyqlib
- python-can-cvector
- epcpm
- scrutinydebugger
- py-uds
- hil-core
- pybldc
- pretty-j1939
- python-can-csscan-mf4
- gkbus
- validatrix
- uc2canopen
- lerobot-robot-seeed-b601
- canviewer
- rp1210
- python-thingset
- openarmx-arm-driver
- robodyno
- akrocansim
- openflex-driver
- python-can-csscan-serial
- damiao-motor
- canopen-utils
- pyx2cscope
- crucihil
- robotframework-uds
- canviz
Package Information
License
LGPL-3.0-only
First Release
October 4, 2015
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
4.6.1
Total Releases
74
Contributors
188
Open PRs
34
Archived
No
Author
python-can contributors
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh