PyRank
python-ldap

python-ldap

LDAP client API for Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-ldap has 4.6M monthly downloads and 441 GitHub stars. Version 3.4.7 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2011.

It is actively maintained, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of pyasn1 and pyasn1-modules. It is used by 117 tracked packages, including django-auth-ldap, assemblyline-ui and pyldap.

Downloads
Day
161.9K
Week
1.1M
Month
4.6M
Stars
441
Forks
134
Issues
79
Version
3.4.7

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
58
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
19 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,569,693
• 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
4,569,693
Stars
441
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
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
161,355
Month daily avg
152,323
Momentum
+5.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
python-ldap
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
47 days ago
Total releases
61
Releases/year
4.0
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
38
Monthly downloads
4,569,693
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
72
 
Issue Burden
179.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.4%
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 101.3K
macOS 224
Windows 50

Python Versions

3.10
32.3% 31.0K
3.12
20.6% 19.8K
3.11
19.3% 18.6K
3.13
15.5% 14.8K
3.14
12.3% 11.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
89.8K
2. DE DE
2.1K
3. FR FR
1.5K
4. AU AU
871
5. BR BR
693
6. IT IT
691
7. SG SG
641
8. GB GB
623
9. NL NL
557
10. FI FI
550

Package Information

License
python-ldap
First Release
February 19, 2011
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.4.7
Total Releases
61
Contributors
38
Open PRs
14
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Keywords
ldap directory authentication
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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