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python-memcached

A python memcached client library.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-memcached has 1.2M monthly downloads and 471 GitHub stars. Version 1.62, first published in 2011.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2024.

It is used by 44 tracked packages, including clinicedc, mrx-link-core and arches.

Downloads
Day
37.1K
Week
275.7K
Month
1.2M
Stars
471
Forks
198
Issues
26
Version
1.62

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
60
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
287 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,193,694
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
1,193,694
Stars
471
Stars per 1k downloads
0.39
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
39,392
Month daily avg
39,790
Momentum
-1.0%
((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
Python Software Foundation License
• 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
904 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
0.9
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
36
Monthly downloads
1,193,694
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
55.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
616d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 26.3K
Windows 165
macOS 106

Python Versions

3.12
40.6% 8.8K
3.11
24.9% 5.4K
3.13
13.8% 3.0K
3.10
12.7% 2.8K
3.14
8.0% 1.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
19.9K
2. SG SG
804
3. DE DE
743
4. IE IE
685
5. AU AU
602
6. GB GB
447
7. JP JP
431
8. CA CA
348
9. NL NL
327
10. FR FR
312

Package Information

License
Python Software Foundation License
First Release
September 19, 2011
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
9 months ago
Latest Version
1.62
Total Releases
14
Contributors
36
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Evan Martin
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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