PyRank
lincolnloop

qrcode

Python QR Code image generator
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

qrcode has 24.4M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 8.2 supports Python <4.0,>=3.9, first published in 2011.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2025.

It is built on top of colorama. It is used by 1,073 tracked packages, including django-two-factor-auth, magic-wormhole and inference-gpu.

Downloads
Day
834.3K
Week
5.7M
Month
24.4M
Stars
4.9K
Forks
737
Issues
40
Version
8.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
80
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
104 days ago
Monthly downloads
24,364,532
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
24,364,532
Stars
4,922
Stars per 1k downloads
0.20
• 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
808,704
Month daily avg
812,151
Momentum
-0.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=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
BSD
• 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
431 days ago
Total releases
39
Releases/year
2.7
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
65
Monthly downloads
24,364,532
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
66
 
Issue Burden
8.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
327d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 478.1K
Windows 23.7K
macOS 10.4K

Python Versions

3.12
43.7% 216.7K
3.11
24.2% 120.1K
3.13
16.5% 82.1K
3.14
11.2% 55.6K
3.10
4.4% 21.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
359.2K
2. IN IN
19.7K
3. DE DE
19.5K
4. CN CN
17.4K
5. JP JP
16.2K
6. FR FR
8.0K
7. SG SG
7.5K
8. AU AU
5.4K
9. NL NL
4.7K
10. GB GB
4.5K

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
November 10, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
8.2
Total Releases
39
Contributors
65
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Author
Lincoln Loop
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
qr denso-wave IEC18004
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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