No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pywavelets has 16.9M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.9.0 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2006.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is built on top of numpy. It is used by 400 tracked packages, including imagededup, attoworld and invisible-watermark.
GitHub topics include wavelets, wavelet-transform and signal-processing.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 309 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
74
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
27 days ago
Monthly downloads
16,948,427
•
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
16,948,427
Stars
2,385
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
•
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
621,132
Month daily avg
564,948
Momentum
+9.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
MIT AND BSD-3-Clause
•
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
336 days ago
Total releases
26
Releases/year
1.3
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
56
Monthly downloads
16,948,427
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
73
Issue Burden
30.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
309d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
436.3K
Windows
14.7K
macOS
4.1K
Python Versions
3.6
65.3%
280.2K
3.12
12.8%
54.9K
3.11
12.5%
53.6K
3.10
6.7%
28.7K
3.13
2.8%
11.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
410.6K
US
2.
SG
5.6K
SG
3.
JP
4.1K
JP
4.
DE
4.0K
DE
5.
IE
3.7K
IE
6.
CN
2.5K
CN
7.
NL
2.5K
NL
8.
GB
2.2K
GB
9.
HK
2.0K
HK
10.
IN
2.0K
IN
Dependencies
1
- numpy <3,>=1.25
Used By
400
- imagededup
- attoworld
- invisible-watermark
- resemble-perth
- neurokit2
- invokeai
- perception
- pycat-napari
- tsfel
- setiastrosuitepro
- bm4d
- pyradiomics
- biosppy
- pyspedas
- consenrich
- ptwt
- opendsm
- ephysiopy
- pymultifracs
- sigpy
- dspeed
- ezmsg-sigproc
- stable-audio-tools
- eemeter
- autoai-ts-libs
- scikit-digital-health
- py-ecg-detectors
- sigima
- ibl-photometry
- numorph-3dunet
- pyhctsa
- ayase
- radiomicsmodellingsuite
- nrel-revx
- nirs4all
- crl-datacube
- bmtool
- scikit-maad
- indsl
- mne-features
- scikit-ued
- blechpy
- saqc
- peegy
- opensoundscape
- mobgap
- goofi
- algotom
- cytodataframe
- rapidtide
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT AND BSD-3-Clause
First Release
March 25, 2006
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
4 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.9.0
Total Releases
26
Contributors
56
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh