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python-kasa

python-kasa

🏠🤖 Python API for TP-Link smarthome products
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python-kasa has 136K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.10.2 supports Python <4.0,>=3.11, first published in 2020.

It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Feb 2025.

It is built on top of aiohttp, asyncclick and cryptography. It is used by 8 tracked packages, including pytapo, domesti-bot and smart-home-testbed.

GitHub topics include tplink, smarthome and asyncio.

Downloads
Day
3.8K
Week
25.5K
Month
135.7K
Stars
1.7K
Forks
285
Issues
49
Version
0.10.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
69
Adoption
51
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
92 days ago
Monthly downloads
135,741
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
135,741
Stars
1,708
Stars per 1k downloads
12.58
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
3,641
Month daily avg
4,525
Momentum
-19.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.11
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
GPL-3.0-or-later
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
509 days ago
Total releases
49
Releases/year
8.0
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
94
Monthly downloads
135,741
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
91
 
Issue Burden
28.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
54.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
416d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.5K
macOS 146
Windows 142

Python Versions

3.14
68.4% 1.9K
3.12
12.1% 327
3.11
9.8% 267
3.13
7.6% 205
3.10
2.2% 59

Top Countries

1. US US
2.0K
2. NL NL
104
3. PL PL
104
4. DE DE
65
5. IN IN
55
6. HK HK
52
7. GB GB
34
8. AU AU
29
9. JP JP
29
10. CH CH
24

Dependencies

5
9 optional dependencies

Used By

8
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
GPL-3.0-or-later
First Release
June 4, 2020
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.10.2
Total Releases
49
Contributors
94
Open PRs
46
Archived
No
Author
python-kasa developers
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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