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readability-lxml

fast python port of arc90's readability tool, updated to match latest readability.js!
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

readability-lxml has 1.6M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 0.8.4.1, first published in 2011.

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

It is built on top of chardet, cssselect and lxml. It is used by 199 tracked packages, including letta, content-core and nanobot-ai.

Downloads
Day
55.5K
Week
350.7K
Month
1.6M
Stars
2.9K
Forks
352
Issues
35
Version
0.8.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
73
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
161 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,641,133
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
1,641,133
Stars
2,896
Stars per 1k downloads
1.76
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
50,096
Month daily avg
54,704
Momentum
-8.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
Apache License 2.0
• 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
429 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
1.7
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
2
Monthly downloads
1,641,133
• 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
30
 
Issue Burden
12.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
267d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 31.9K
Windows 1.2K
macOS 787

Python Versions

3.12
39.3% 13.1K
3.11
27.8% 9.2K
3.14
16.6% 5.5K
3.13
13.5% 4.5K
3.10
2.8% 914

Top Countries

1. US US
29.1K
2. SG SG
1.2K
3. DE DE
493
4. NL NL
472
5. JP JP
309
6. CN CN
299
7. HK HK
259
8. CA CA
168
9. IN IN
143
10. GB GB
124

Package Information

License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
June 30, 2011
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
0.8.4.1
Total Releases
25
Contributors
2
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Yuri Baburov
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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