No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
rank-bm25 has 7.5M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.2.2, first published in 2019.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2022.
It is used by 478 tracked packages, including crawl4ai, open-webui and edgartools.
GitHub topics include bm25, information-retrieval and algorithm.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 4 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
64
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
636 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,472,209
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
7,472,209
Stars
1,361
Stars per 1k downloads
0.18
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
247,162
Month daily avg
249,074
Momentum
-0.8%
((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
Apache2.0
•
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
1601 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
0.5
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
4
Monthly downloads
7,472,209
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
39
Issue Burden
10.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
965d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
145.4K
Windows
7.2K
macOS
5.4K
Python Versions
3.12
46.6%
68.4K
3.11
28.4%
41.6K
3.13
13.1%
19.2K
3.10
6.2%
9.1K
3.14
5.7%
8.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
116.4K
US
2.
IE
7.4K
IE
3.
FI
4.4K
FI
4.
DE
3.8K
DE
5.
IT
3.5K
IT
6.
SG
3.0K
SG
7.
IN
2.8K
IN
8.
KR
2.3K
KR
9.
HK
1.5K
HK
10.
CN
1.5K
CN
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
478
- crawl4ai
- open-webui
- edgartools
- bfcl-eval
- farm-haystack
- langroid
- astrbot
- changedetection-io
- agenthatch
- aurapro-ui
- swiss-ai-hub-core
- mcp-vector-search
- superlocalmemory
- similarity-tool
- opencompass
- research-pipeline
- docetl
- traigent
- kestrel-sovereign
- tradingagents
- aait
- lynx-mcp
- jl-ecms-server
- swival
- asag-rag
- pmb-ai
- autorag
- opencomputer
- refchecker
- mymem0ry
- powermem
- motley-slayer
- loop-chat
- season
- mtxai
- langchain-teddynote
- agent-brain-rag
- prismal-ai
- ace-framework
- maru-deep-pro-search
- xskill
- nucleus-mcp
- opencrane
- axon-rag
- akasha-terminal
- code-intelligence-mcp
- itp-interface
- contextweaver
- fagoon-upgrade
- jfox-cli
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache2.0
First Release
January 24, 2019
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.2.2
Total Releases
4
Contributors
4
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Author
D. Brown
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh