PyRank
hardbyte

python-can

The can package provides controller area network support for Python developers
PyPI GitHub

Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (hardbyte/python-can) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
409.9K
Week
2.1M
Month
8.3M
Stars
1.6K
Forks
677
Issues
225
Version
4.6.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
73
Adoption
80
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
62 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,319,102
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
8,319,102
Stars
1,558
Stars per 1k downloads
0.19
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
298,536
Month daily avg
277,303
Momentum
+7.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
283 days ago
Total releases
74
Releases/year
7.0
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
186
Monthly downloads
8,319,102
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
144.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
34.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
221d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 109.8K
Windows 1.4K
macOS 781

Python Versions

3.12
70.0% 76.8K
3.10
18.2% 19.9K
3.11
5.4% 5.9K
3.14
4.0% 4.4K
3.13
2.4% 2.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
111.4K
2. NL NL
3.2K
3. DE DE
1.7K
4. IE IE
893
5. CN CN
652
6. SE SE
564
7. SG SG
403
8. CZ CZ
366
9. GB GB
325
10. DK DK
298

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
LGPL-3.0-only
First Release
October 4, 2015
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
4.6.1
Total Releases
74
Contributors
186
Open PRs
37
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
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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