Monthly downloads
717.3K
Weekly downloads
169.6K
GitHub stars
361
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
MIT License
Last Release
1 year ago
First Release
February 8, 2015
Total Releases
19
Python Versions
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 395 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
57
Adoption
78
Community
85
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
717,277
•
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
717,277
Stars
361
Stars per 1k downloads
0.50
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
24,235
Month daily avg
23,909
Momentum
+1.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT 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
406 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
1.6
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
65
Monthly downloads
717,277
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
75
Issue Burden
338.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
46.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
395d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
5.7K
Windows
630
macOS
249
Python Versions
3.12
37.9%
2.3K
3.11
27.6%
1.7K
3.10
16.8%
1.0K
3.13
11.5%
688
3.14
6.3%
377
Top Countries
1.
US
4.7K
US
2.
CH
411
CH
3.
DE
346
DE
4.
CA
322
CA
5.
SG
278
SG
6.
IL
97
IL
7.
FI
94
FI
8.
CN
88
CN
9.
IN
79
IN
10.
SE
65
SE
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
2
- pyvisa >=1.15.0
- typing-extensions
9 optional dependencies
-
gpib-ctypes>=0.3.0[gpib-ctypes]extra == "gpib-ctypes"
-
libusb-package[usb-full]extra == "usb-full"
-
psutil[psutil]extra == "psutil"
-
pyserial>=3.0[serial]extra == "serial"
-
pyusb[usb-full]extra == "usb-full"
-
pyusb[usb]extra == "usb"
-
pyvicp[vicp]extra == "vicp"
-
zeroconf[hislip-discovery]extra == "hislip-discovery"
-
zeroconf[vicp]extra == "vicp"
Used By
125
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- instro 2.9K/mo
- piec 2.4K/mo
- qcdrivers 2.3K/mo
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords