No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
python-xlib has 3.7M monthly downloads and 463 GitHub stars. Version 0.33, first published in 2016.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a copyleft license, last released in Dec 2022.
It is used by 134 tracked packages, including seleniumbase, pywinauto and pynput.
GitHub topics include xlib and linux.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
58
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1289 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,717,492
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
3,717,492
Stars
463
Stars per 1k downloads
0.12
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
99,480
Month daily avg
123,916
Momentum
-19.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
LGPLv2+
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
1289 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
1.8
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
46
Monthly downloads
3,717,492
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
79
Issue Burden
142.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
4.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.7%
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
66.1K
Windows
596
macOS
371
Python Versions
3.12
41.2%
25.6K
3.10
20.6%
12.8K
3.11
17.7%
11.0K
3.13
11.6%
7.2K
3.14
8.9%
5.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
48.9K
US
2.
IE
4.4K
IE
3.
NL
2.7K
NL
4.
SG
1.4K
SG
5.
DE
1.3K
DE
6.
TW
1.2K
TW
7.
GB
981
GB
8.
CN
748
CN
9.
IN
722
IN
10.
JP
695
JP
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
134
- seleniumbase
- pywinauto
- pynput
- pystray
- rpaframework
- pymonctl
- pywinctl
- pywinbox
- ewmhlib
- cdp-patches
- gamesentenceminer
- cua-computer-server
- psychopy
- i3ipc
- gambaterm
- je-auto-control
- je-auto-control-dev
- plover
- browser-farm
- klembord
- ptsrvtester
- shotquill
- yazses
- hhd
- solaar
- psychopy-lib
- hello-robot-stretch-factory
- termux-desk
- interpreter-v2
- jellytoast
- botcity-framework-core
- vadgr-computer-use
- keep-presence-keyboard
- hello-robot-stretch4-body
- vocalinux
- pytron-kit
- crcutil
- discover-overlay
- nosleepy
- safeeyes
- selkies
- re-cdp-patches
- meikipop
- special-octo-robot
- pipecat-ai-mcp-server
- pynputfix
- pystrayfix
- kazam
- streamdeck-ui
- escape-sdk
Package Information
License
LGPLv2+
First Release
July 16, 2016
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
0.33
Total Releases
18
Contributors
46
Open PRs
18
Archived
No
Author
Peter Liljenberg
Python Versions
2.7
3
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh