No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pywatchman has 472K monthly downloads and 14K GitHub stars. Version 4.0.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is used by 2 tracked packages, including coltrane and polar-patch.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
87
Adoption
76
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
471,948
•
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
471,948
Stars
13,626
Stars per 1k downloads
28.87
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
15,815
Month daily avg
15,732
Momentum
+0.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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 3-Clause 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
24 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
0.8
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
375
Monthly downloads
471,948
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
62
Issue Burden
15.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
35.4%
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
6.0K
macOS
28
Windows
5
Python Versions
3.10
30.6%
1.7K
3.11
26.0%
1.4K
3.12
23.4%
1.3K
3.13
17.5%
977
3.6
2.6%
146
Top Countries
1.
US
3.4K
US
2.
SG
927
SG
3.
RU
736
RU
4.
HK
165
HK
5.
JP
148
JP
6.
IL
117
IL
7.
CN
101
CN
8.
DE
95
DE
9.
BR
66
BR
10.
CA
61
CA
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
2
Package Information
License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
August 7, 2015
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
4.0.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
375
Open PRs
34
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh