Monthly downloads
1.6M
Weekly downloads
428.2K
GitHub stars
420
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=2.7
Licence
The Unlicense
Last Release
3 years ago
Author
Tomer Filiba
First Release
June 7, 2012
Total Releases
28
Python Versions
2.7
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 764 days despite active commits
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
56
Adoption
90
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
529 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,608,038
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
1,608,038
Stars
420
Stars per 1k downloads
0.26
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
61,174
Month daily avg
53,601
Momentum
+14.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
The Unlicense
•
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
1294 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
1.9
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
11
Monthly downloads
1,608,038
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
54
Issue Burden
61.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
764d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
45.4K
Windows
5.8K
macOS
2.6K
Python Versions
3.12
29.3%
15.4K
3.10
19.9%
10.4K
3.14
19.9%
10.4K
3.13
17.6%
9.2K
3.11
13.3%
7.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
41.6K
US
2.
DE
2.1K
DE
3.
SG
919
SG
4.
CN
692
CN
5.
GB
642
GB
6.
FR
613
FR
7.
IN
613
IN
8.
PL
562
PL
9.
NL
419
NL
10.
CA
382
CA
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
39
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Repository details
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh