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rarfile

Python module for RAR archive reading
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

rarfile has 4.3M monthly downloads and 267 GitHub stars. Version 4.2 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2011.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2024.

It is used by 120 tracked packages, including visualdl, voxel51-eta and flowtask.

GitHub topics include archive, rar and unrar.

Downloads
Day
451.3K
Week
2.5M
Month
4.3M
Stars
267
Forks
59
Issues
8
Version
4.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
51
Adoption
100
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
820 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,339,923
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
4,339,923
Stars
267
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
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
351,134
Month daily avg
144,664
Momentum
+142.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
ISC
• 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
824 days ago
Total releases
12
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
17
Monthly downloads
4,339,923
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
58
 
Issue Burden
30.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
28.8%
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 36.0K
Windows 3.8K
macOS 766

Python Versions

3.12
40.5% 15.0K
3.11
26.0% 9.6K
3.10
17.9% 6.6K
3.13
8.3% 3.1K
3.14
7.3% 2.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
335.8K
2. DK DK
82.3K
3. SE SE
14.7K
4. BR BR
2.3K
5. CN CN
2.0K
6. RU RU
1.1K
7. BE BE
1.1K
8. GB GB
1.1K
9. SG SG
980
10. FR FR
941
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
ISC
First Release
November 5, 2011
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
4.2
Total Releases
12
Contributors
17
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Marko Kreen
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
rar unrar archive
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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