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python-louvain

Louvain Community Detection
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-louvain has 373K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.16, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2022.

It is used by 121 tracked packages, including orange3, bnlearn and flowmachine.

GitHub topics include networkx, community-detection and louvain-method.

Downloads
Day
10.1K
Week
83.8K
Month
373.5K
Stars
1.0K
Forks
201
Issues
14
Version
0.16

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
65
Adoption
65
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
842 days ago
Monthly downloads
373,484
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
373,484
Stars
1,044
Stars per 1k downloads
2.80
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
11,965
Month daily avg
12,449
Momentum
-3.9%
((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
1619 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
1.2
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
22
Monthly downloads
373,484
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
43
 
Issue Burden
13.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
777d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.5K
Windows 318
macOS 217

Python Versions

3.12
42.2% 3.0K
3.11
26.1% 1.9K
3.10
12.7% 912
3.13
11.7% 838
3.9
7.2% 517

Top Countries

1. US US
6.3K
2. KR KR
483
3. SG SG
263
4. GB GB
188
5. CN CN
101
6. DE DE
92
7. HK HK
92
8. JP JP
78
9. NL NL
68
10. CA CA
62
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
November 5, 2013
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
0.16
Total Releases
15
Contributors
22
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Thomas Aynaud
Python Versions
2.7 3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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