PyRank
richardpenman

python-whois

Whois querying and parsing of domain registration information.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-whois has 1.8M monthly downloads and 455 GitHub stars. Version 0.9.6, first published in 2013.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.

It is built on top of python-dateutil. It is used by 148 tracked packages, including guarddog, baddns and aiwaf.

Downloads
Day
65.7K
Week
421.7K
Month
1.8M
Stars
455
Forks
210
Issues
14
Version
0.9.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
60
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
33 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,780,194
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
1,780,194
Stars
455
Stars per 1k downloads
0.26
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
60,249
Month daily avg
59,340
Momentum
+1.5%
((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
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
273 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
2.1
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
85
Monthly downloads
1,780,194
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
68
 
Issue Burden
30.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
239d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 37.3K
Windows 850
macOS 204

Python Versions

3.12
43.7% 15.8K
3.11
34.9% 12.6K
3.13
11.8% 4.3K
3.14
5.5% 2.0K
3.10
4.0% 1.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
29.4K
2. BE BE
1.5K
3. IE IE
1.2K
4. DE DE
824
5. FR FR
735
6. GB GB
681
7. IN IN
532
8. SE SE
391
9. NL NL
278
10. SG SG
236

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 8, 2013
Last Release
9 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.9.6
Total Releases
28
Contributors
85
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Richard Penman
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
whois python
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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