No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
restructuredtext-lint has 17.9M monthly downloads and 183 GitHub stars. Version 2.0.2, first published in 2013.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.
It is built on top of docutils. It is used by 18 tracked packages, including doc8, flake8-rst-docstrings and coala-bears.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
45
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
225 days ago
Monthly downloads
17,941,062
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
17,941,062
Stars
183
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
597,609
Month daily avg
598,035
Momentum
-0.1%
((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
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
225 days ago
Total releases
49
Releases/year
3.9
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
17,941,062
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
36
Issue Burden
27.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
52.4%
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
573.3K
Windows
578
macOS
118
Python Versions
3.10
91.7%
523.8K
3.11
2.6%
15.1K
3.12
2.1%
11.8K
3.13
1.9%
11.1K
3.14
1.7%
9.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
567.9K
US
2.
SG
1.2K
SG
3.
HK
687
HK
4.
DE
470
DE
5.
AU
400
AU
6.
IE
357
IE
7.
NO
349
NO
8.
CA
342
CA
9.
CZ
339
CZ
10.
CN
288
CN
Dependencies
1
- docutils <1.0,>=0.11
Package Information
License
UNLICENSE
First Release
November 22, 2013
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
2.0.2
Total Releases
49
Contributors
11
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Todd Wolfson
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh