PyRank
henriquebastos

python-decouple

Strict separation of config from code.
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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-decouple has 10.5M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 3.8, first published in 2014.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2023.

It is used by 457 tracked packages, including streamlit-aggrid, brickflows and koheesio.

GitHub topics include configuration-files and environment-variables.

Downloads
Day
262.0K
Week
2.4M
Month
10.5M
Stars
3.0K
Forks
218
Issues
12
Version
3.8

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
72
Adoption
70
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
917 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,504,624
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
10,504,624
Stars
3,038
Stars per 1k downloads
0.29
• 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
339,583
Month daily avg
350,154
Momentum
-3.0%
((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
1223 days ago
Total releases
12
Releases/year
1.0
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
36
Monthly downloads
10,504,624
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
54
 
Issue Burden
3.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
305d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 143.2K
Windows 2.9K
macOS 817

Python Versions

3.11
38.1% 51.1K
3.12
34.3% 46.1K
3.13
11.1% 14.9K
3.10
9.5% 12.8K
3.14
6.9% 9.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
113.7K
2. DE DE
7.1K
3. IE IE
5.4K
4. IN IN
2.5K
5. NL NL
1.9K
6. GB GB
1.8K
7. SG SG
1.5K
8. FR FR
1.4K
9. BR BR
1.4K
10. FI FI
1.1K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
February 25, 2014
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
3.8
Total Releases
12
Contributors
36
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Henrique Bastos
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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