No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-docx has 102.8M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 1.2.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is built on top of lxml and typing-extensions. It is used by 1,901 tracked packages, including browser-use, crewai-tools and openhands-ai.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
82
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
384 days ago
Monthly downloads
102,794,243
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
102,794,243
Stars
5,658
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
•
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
3,752,311
Month daily avg
3,426,475
Momentum
+9.5%
((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
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
384 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
3.0
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
11
Monthly downloads
102,794,243
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
61
Issue Burden
65.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Overwhelmed
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
2.1M
Windows
241.7K
macOS
34.1K
Python Versions
3.12
51.2%
1.2M
3.13
22.0%
521.4K
3.11
15.7%
372.0K
3.10
6.8%
159.9K
3.14
4.3%
102.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.8M
US
2.
SG
200.5K
SG
3.
CN
112.8K
CN
4.
IN
42.2K
IN
5.
DE
39.8K
DE
6.
NL
29.3K
NL
7.
JP
25.2K
JP
8.
GB
22.4K
GB
9.
FR
17.7K
FR
10.
IE
16.8K
IE
Dependencies
2
- lxml >=3.1.0
- typing-extensions >=4.9.0
Used By
1901
- browser-use
- crewai-tools
- openhands-ai
- docxtpl
- docxcompose
- pdf2docx
- office-word-mcp-server
- rpaframework
- sarif-tools
- mineru
- openviking
- html-for-docx
- gpt-researcher
- langflow-base
- pyrit
- unique-toolkit
- langfun
- graphon
- karaoke-gen
- markitdown-ocr
- solace-agent-mesh
- xpander-sdk
- meeting-helper
- open-terminal
- docassemble-base
- alpi-agent
- assetutilities
- distillr
- iatoolkit
- maketables
- content-core
- nanobot-ai
- docassemble-webapp
- ltcai
- docx-revisions
- medicafe
- energysystemmodels
- plutus-ai
- supervertaler
- abstract-ai
- vibe-trading-ai
- biopygeon
- citevahti
- primr
- mnemoai-assistant
- auto-coder
- mag-agent
- abstract-ocr
- systemu
- keep-skill
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
January 5, 2014
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
1.2.0
Total Releases
37
Contributors
11
Open PRs
130
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh