Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.9
Licence
LGPL-3.0-only
Last Release
1 year ago
Author
python-can contributors
First Release
October 4, 2015
Total Releases
74
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 298 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
73
Adoption
80
Community
100
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
133 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,139,611
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
3,139,611
Stars
1,604
Stars per 1k downloads
0.51
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
111,211
Month daily avg
104,654
Momentum
+6.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
431 days ago
Total releases
74
Releases/year
6.7
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
188
Monthly downloads
3,139,611
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
144.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
34.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
298d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
41.3K
Windows
1.6K
macOS
1.3K
Python Versions
3.12
55.4%
23.3K
3.10
18.3%
7.7K
3.11
14.2%
6.0K
3.13
7.6%
3.2K
3.14
4.5%
1.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
40.7K
US
2.
DE
2.5K
DE
3.
NL
1.5K
NL
4.
PL
855
PL
5.
CN
493
CN
6.
SE
424
SE
7.
IN
397
IN
8.
IE
344
IE
9.
CA
289
CA
10.
FR
245
FR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars *
Dependencies
3
- packaging >=23.1
- typing-extensions >=3.10.0.0
- wrapt ~=1.10
19 optional dependencies
-
asammdf>=6.0.0[mf4]extra == "mf4"
-
canalystii>=0.1.0[canalystii]extra == "canalystii"
-
cantact>=0.0.7[cantact]extra == "cantact"
-
filelock[neovi]extra == "neovi"
-
gs-usb>=0.2.1[gs-usb]extra == "gs-usb"
-
msgpack~=1.1.0[multicast]extra == "multicast"
-
nixnet>=0.3.2[nixnet]extra == "nixnet"
-
pyserial>=3.0[seeedstudio]extra == "seeedstudio"
-
pyserial~=3.0[serial]extra == "serial"
-
python-can-candle>=1.2.2[candle]extra == "candle"
-
python-can-canine>=0.2.2[canine]extra == "canine"
-
python-can-cvector[cvector]extra == "cvector"
-
python-can-remote[remote]extra == "remote"
-
python-can-sontheim>=0.1.2[sontheim]extra == "sontheim"
-
python-ics>=2.12[neovi]extra == "neovi"
-
pywin32>=305[pywin32](platform_system == "Windows" and platform_python_implementation == "CPython") and extra == "pywin32"
-
uptime~=3.0.1[pcan]extra == "pcan"
-
windows-curses[viewer](platform_system == "Windows" and platform_python_implementation == "CPython") and extra == "viewer"
-
zlgcan[zlgcan]extra == "zlgcan"
Used By
200
- cantools 882.5K/mo
- canopen 657.5K/mo
- odxtools 605.9K/mo
- piper-sdk 109.0K/mo
- pyxcp 79.6K/mo
- remotivelabs-cli 12.5K/mo
- canopen-asyncio 10.9K/mo
- almond-axol 9.6K/mo
- pytrinamic 8.6K/mo
- mcp-can 7.8K/mo
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh