No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pywinauto has 2.7M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 0.6.9, first published in 2006.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2025.
It is built on top of comtypes, python-xlib and pywin32. It is used by 129 tracked packages, including rpaframework, cdp-patches and worker-automate-hub.
GitHub topics include automation, ui-automation and ui-automated-tests.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 501 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
81
Adoption
100
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
45 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,724,218
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
2,724,218
Stars
6,101
Stars per 1k downloads
2.24
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
114,539
Month daily avg
90,807
Momentum
+26.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
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
547 days ago
Total releases
17
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
82
Monthly downloads
2,724,218
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
83
Issue Burden
82.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
501d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Windows
56.1K
Linux
2.5K
macOS
201
Python Versions
3.11
70.8%
40.9K
3.12
14.9%
8.6K
3.10
5.3%
3.1K
3.13
5.1%
3.0K
3.14
3.8%
2.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
50.6K
US
2.
CN
1.5K
CN
3.
CA
1.1K
CA
4.
RO
945
RO
5.
IN
627
IN
6.
NL
548
NL
7.
JP
320
JP
8.
PL
295
PL
9.
DE
271
DE
10.
GB
220
GB
Dependencies
4
- comtypes <=1.2.1
- python-xlib
- pywin32 <=227
- six
Used By
129
- rpaframework
- cdp-patches
- worker-automate-hub
- jarvis-ai-assistant
- pywingui
- airtest
- easytrader
- netcoredbg-mcp
- t-desktop
- ezxl
- computer-use-ootb-internal
- olly-desktop
- pywechat127
- agenteye-app
- msb-rpa
- movva-tech-library
- glgrpa
- pyofficerobot
- agentclaw-ai
- pyanty
- gui-agents
- ankigammon
- py-rpautom
- mountwizzard4
- vision-oslo-extension
- ghcp-cli-dashboard
- voxkage
- pocket-desk-agent
- pywinauto-recorder
- vadgr-computer-use
- pybenutils
- qappuccinolibrary
- fastmcp-app-launcher-test
- qgislibrary
- sim-cli-core
- koapy
- autoasd
- useit-client
- jvlmotor
- nsk
- mutenix
- lybic-guiagents
- re-cdp-patches
- mcp-server-wechat
- mcp-ui-explorer
- irradiapy
- after-effects-automation
- fidi-common-libraries
- instamatic
- ad06-agent
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD 3-clause
First Release
January 21, 2006
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.6.9
Total Releases
17
Contributors
82
Open PRs
30
Archived
No
Author
Mark Mc Mahon and Contributors
Python Versions
2.7
3.5
3.6
3.7
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh