No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-hcl2 has 10.5M monthly downloads and 312 GitHub stars. Version 8.1.2 supports Python 3.8.0+, first published in 2019.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of lark and regex. It is used by 99 tracked packages, including metagit-cli, terraform-local and codd-dev.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
53
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
69 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,450,888
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
10,450,888
Stars
312
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
•
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
174,900
Month daily avg
348,363
Momentum
-49.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8.0
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
87 days ago
Total releases
56
Releases/year
8.2
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
26
Monthly downloads
10,450,888
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
45
Issue Burden
38.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.6%
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
65.9K
Windows
555
macOS
189
Python Versions
3.12
55.8%
34.2K
3.11
21.9%
13.5K
3.10
8.9%
5.5K
3.13
7.2%
4.4K
3.14
6.1%
3.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
42.9K
US
2.
IE
11.0K
IE
3.
JP
2.7K
JP
4.
NL
2.7K
NL
5.
GB
1.7K
GB
6.
DE
1.5K
DE
7.
SE
961
SE
8.
CH
743
CH
9.
CA
500
CA
10.
SG
296
SG
Used By
99
- metagit-cli
- terraform-local
- codd-dev
- efterlev
- c7n-left
- cased-kit
- mongo-charms-single-kernel
- xyz-strata
- aviatrix-migration
- runway
- terravision
- extended-data-types
- extended-data
- terraui
- opsight
- inframate
- codeloom
- carbongate
- leverage
- terrawrap
- generate-imports-from-plan
- jupyter-deploy
- terraform-ingest
- coguard-cli
- terragrunt-generator
- actionscope
- nomadctl
- sym-flow-cli
- hedwig-cg
- riveter
- tfdo
- atlas-init
- cluster-builder
- hcl-processor
- tha-terragrunt
- relia-oss
- terraform-guardrail
- cloudwire
- lemniscat-plugin-filetransform
- packerbuilder
- tfdocs
- infrastructure-diagram-mcp-server
- privacy-sentinel
- security-use
- c7n-terraform
- dapla-team-cli
- spectrik
- specql
- threatmap
- devopsmind
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
August 27, 2019
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
8.1.2
Total Releases
56
Contributors
26
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh