PyRank
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python-gnupg

A Python API for the GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG). Encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify your data using Python! N.B. This repository has been migrated from Mercurial on 2019-11-16, so references to commits before this date will refer to the Mercurial source and not this Git repository. The migration is marked by a commit that adds a .gitignore file.
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Downloads
Day
642.7K
Week
3.9M
Month
17.5M
Stars
144
Forks
41
Issues
7
Version
0.5.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
40
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
12 days ago
Monthly downloads
17,457,859
• 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
17,457,859
Stars
144
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
561,369
Month daily avg
581,929
Momentum
-3.5%
((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
BSD
• 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
142 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
1.9
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
19
Monthly downloads
17,457,859
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
47
 
Issue Burden
48.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
46.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
130d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 395.4K
Windows 1.5K
macOS 381

Python Versions

3.11
33.6% 125.7K
3.10
29.8% 111.6K
3.12
23.6% 88.1K
3.7
7.9% 29.7K
3.9
5.1% 18.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
259.8K
2. IE IE
63.0K
3. IN IN
17.7K
4. SG SG
14.9K
5. BR BR
11.7K
6. NL NL
6.4K
7. GB GB
5.5K
8. AU AU
5.3K
9. CA CA
4.0K
10. DE DE
3.8K

GitHub Topics

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

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
June 4, 2013
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.5.6
Total Releases
25
Contributors
19
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Vinay Sajip
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
GnuPG cryptography encryption decryption signing verification
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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