PyRank
mhammond

pywin32

Python for Windows (pywin32) Extensions
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pywin32 has 57.5M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 312 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2018.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is used by 1,737 tracked packages, including mcp, docker and portalocker.

GitHub topics include windows.

Downloads
Day
2.4M
Week
14.5M
Month
57.5M
Stars
5.6K
Forks
848
Issues
337
Version
312

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
81
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
57,549,771
• 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
57,549,771
Stars
5,579
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
• 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
2,068,304
Month daily avg
1,918,326
Momentum
+7.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
PSF
• 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
33 days ago
Total releases
21
Releases/year
2.5
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
108
Monthly downloads
57,549,771
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
88
 
Issue Burden
60.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
11.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Windows 976.6K
Linux 579.0K
macOS 7.0K

Python Versions

3.12
56.5% 844.1K
3.11
13.7% 204.7K
3.13
13.7% 204.2K
3.10
10.6% 159.1K
3.14
5.5% 82.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.2M
2. CN CN
42.9K
3. IN IN
38.0K
4. GB GB
36.5K
5. DE DE
26.4K
6. JP JP
24.4K
7. SG SG
16.3K
8. NL NL
13.5K
9. KR KR
12.8K
10. FR FR
11.4K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
PSF
First Release
January 21, 2018
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
312
Total Releases
21
Contributors
108
Open PRs
61
Archived
No
Author
Mark Hammond (et al)
Python Versions
3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp315 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

Links