No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pyusb has 4.4M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.3.1 supports Python 3.9.0+, first published in 2011.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2025.
It is used by 346 tracked packages, including pyocd, pyftdi and pymobiledevice3.
GitHub topics include usb and hardware.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 399 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
75
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
144 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,424,036
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
4,424,036
Stars
2,304
Stars per 1k downloads
0.52
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
131,504
Month daily avg
147,468
Momentum
-10.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
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
BSD 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
544 days ago
Total releases
13
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
63
Monthly downloads
4,424,036
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
87
Issue Burden
11.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
22.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
399d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
48.2K
Windows
5.9K
macOS
5.2K
Python Versions
3.12
32.8%
16.1K
3.11
19.7%
9.7K
3.14
19.6%
9.6K
3.13
14.3%
7.0K
3.10
13.5%
6.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
32.4K
US
2.
FR
7.4K
FR
3.
GB
2.4K
GB
4.
DE
1.8K
DE
5.
PL
1.4K
PL
6.
CN
1.3K
CN
7.
NL
1.2K
NL
8.
IE
1.1K
IE
9.
SG
908
SG
10.
CA
894
CA
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
346
- pyocd
- pyftdi
- pymobiledevice3
- spsdk-mcu-link
- zigpy-zigate
- bumble
- pyxcp
- brother-ql-inventree
- opentrons
- brother-ql
- labgrid
- pyegps
- qmk
- apollo-fpga
- reachy-mini
- tinyprog
- tm-devices
- arctis-sound-manager
- genio-tools
- cflib
- pylablib
- trcc-linux
- acconeer-exptool
- py-silhouette
- pipython
- weewx
- ubo-app
- monsoon
- hello-robot-stretch-body-tools
- liquidctl
- instrumentkit
- iopenpod
- pyhid-usb-relay
- eric-ide
- rigol-dg1022
- pynitrokey
- hello-robot-stretch-body
- pyfu-usb
- aiocflib
- mpflash
- paperang-p2-lib
- meerk40t
- flitter-lang
- pybricksdev
- brother-ql-next
- luna-usb
- labeljetty
- pyavrocd
- hello-robot-stretch-factory
- flirpy
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
November 12, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.3.1
Total Releases
13
Contributors
63
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Jonas Malaco
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh