PyRank
eyeseast

python-frontmatter

Parse and manage posts with YAML (or other) frontmatter
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
521.1K
Week
2.7M
Month
9.7M
Stars
415
Forks
45
Issues
13
Version
1.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
53
Adoption
90
Community
40
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
168 days ago
Monthly downloads
9,716,736
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
9,716,736
Stars
415
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
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
381,249
Month daily avg
323,891
Momentum
+17.7%
((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
1 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
1.8
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
13
Monthly downloads
9,716,736
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
42
 
Issue Burden
31.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 215.8K
Windows 3.0K
macOS 2.8K

Python Versions

3.13
43.2% 92.5K
3.12
37.9% 81.1K
3.11
13.4% 28.8K
3.14
3.3% 7.2K
3.10
2.2% 4.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
193.9K
2. SG SG
8.7K
3. GB GB
3.6K
4. DE DE
1.9K
5. CN CN
1.6K
6. JP JP
1.0K
7. MY MY
1.0K
8. IL IL
1.0K
9. FR FR
913
10. RU RU
864

GitHub Topics

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

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
September 15, 2014
Last Release
2 days ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
1.3.0
Total Releases
21
Contributors
13
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Chris Amico
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
frontmatter
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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