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theskumar

python-dotenv

Reads key-value pairs from a .env file and can set them as environment variables. It helps in developing applications following the 12-factor principles.
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python-dotenv has 677.1M monthly downloads and 9K GitHub stars. Version 1.2.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is used by 23,003 tracked packages, including litellm, pydantic-settings and browser-use.

GitHub topics include devops-tools, dotenv and 12-factor-app.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (theskumar/python-dotenv) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
21.8M
Week
154.6M
Month
677.1M
Stars
8.8K
Forks
545
Issues
53
Version
1.2.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
82
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
28 days ago
Monthly downloads
677,128,238
• 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
677,128,238
Stars
8,814
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
22,079,921
Month daily avg
22,570,941
Momentum
-2.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
127 days ago
Total releases
50
Releases/year
4.2
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
103
Monthly downloads
677,128,238
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
6.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
98d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 15.3M
Windows 366.0K
macOS 183.4K

Python Versions

3.12
41.3% 6.3M
3.11
26.8% 4.1M
3.13
16.3% 2.5M
3.10
10.1% 1.5M
3.14
5.5% 844.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
11.0M
2. SG SG
1.2M
3. IN IN
597.3K
4. DE DE
423.9K
5. IE IE
330.3K
6. NL NL
278.5K
7. GB GB
197.6K
8. JP JP
185.6K
9. FR FR
140.9K
10. CA CA
119.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
September 8, 2014
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.2.2
Total Releases
50
Contributors
103
Open PRs
52
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
environment variables deployments settings env dotenv configurations python
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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