No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pywebview has 1.4M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 6.2.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of bottle, importlib-resources and proxy-tools. It is used by 265 tracked packages, including serena-agent, qwenpaw and meeting-helper.
GitHub topics include webkit, gtk and linux.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
80
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
52 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,396,460
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
1,396,460
Stars
5,938
Stars per 1k downloads
4.25
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
45,778
Month daily avg
46,549
Momentum
-1.7%
((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
82 days ago
Total releases
78
Releases/year
6.7
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
164
Monthly downloads
1,396,460
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
65
Issue Burden
1.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
18.9
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.1%
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
15.2K
Windows
13.2K
macOS
3.9K
Python Versions
3.12
41.8%
13.1K
3.11
24.1%
7.6K
3.13
16.0%
5.0K
3.14
12.9%
4.1K
3.10
5.2%
1.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
18.1K
US
2.
CN
1.9K
CN
3.
JP
1.3K
JP
4.
DE
1.0K
DE
5.
IN
822
IN
6.
KR
639
KR
7.
BR
495
BR
8.
SG
473
SG
9.
FR
434
FR
10.
HK
379
HK
Dependencies
12
- bottle
- importlib-resources
- proxy-tools
- pyobjc-core >=9.0
- pyobjc-framework-cocoa >=9.0
- pyobjc-framework-quartz >=9.0
- pyobjc-framework-security >=9.0
- pyobjc-framework-uniformtypeidentifiers >=9.0
- pyobjc-framework-webkit >=9.0
- pythonnet
- qtpy
- typing-extensions
23 optional dependencies
- build[dev]
- cefpython3[cef]
- cryptography[ssl]
- jnius[android]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pygobject[gtk]
- pygobject-stubs[gtk]
- pyqt5[qt5]
- pyqt6[qt]
- pyqt6[qt6]
- pyqt6-webengine[qt]
- pyqt6-webengine[qt6]
- pyqtwebengine[qt5]
- pyside2[pyside2]
- pyside6[pyside6]
- pytest[dev]
- qtpy[pyside6]
- qtpy[qt5]
- qtpy[qt6]
- qtpy[qt]
- qtpy[pyside2]
- ruff[dev]
- twine[dev]
Used By
265
- serena-agent
- qwenpaw
- meeting-helper
- runspec-console
- spotiflac
- nexus-agentos
- teammate-sync
- fwquant
- meisai-checker
- bcml
- claude-usage-tracker
- fible
- peerfold-review
- opalacoder
- ansys-saf-desktop-orchestrator
- memobot
- xingzierai
- yanzhiti
- shibaclaw
- job-hunter-kit
- tradedangerous
- annoviz
- gway
- copaw
- robocorp-dialog
- arrayview
- r2h2
- omnime
- pywebwinui3
- bindmc
- agentwall-security
- violit
- agenteye-app
- hypergolic
- beamngpy
- quodeq
- dbrownell-brythonwebviewtest
- digiqual
- condash
- pycmd2
- canvasrobot
- webexe
- dashai
- local-search-agent
- ssscoring
- streamlit-desktop-app
- pfund-plot
- crossword-puzzle
- joy-markdown-studio
- lightweight-charts-onesixth
Package Information
License
BSD 3-Clause License
First Release
November 30, 2014
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
6.2.1
Total Releases
78
Contributors
164
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
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