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groodt

retrying

Retrying is an Apache 2.0 licensed general-purpose retrying library, written in Python, to simplify the task of adding retry behavior to just about anything.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

retrying has 35.1M monthly downloads and 94 GitHub stars. Version 1.4.2 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is used by 391 tracked packages, including dash, snowflake-ml-python and foundry-platform-sdk.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (groodt/retrying) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
1.1M
Week
7.8M
Month
35.1M
Stars
94
Forks
18
Issues
2
Version
1.4.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
40
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
35,065,267
• 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
35,065,267
Stars
94
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
1,109,186
Month daily avg
1,168,842
Momentum
-5.1%
((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
Apache-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
337 days ago
Total releases
18
Releases/year
1.3
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
15
Monthly downloads
35,065,267
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
40
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
83.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
322d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 685.1K
Windows 10.6K
macOS 3.7K

Python Versions

3.12
32.0% 196.5K
3.11
29.3% 179.6K
3.10
25.1% 154.3K
3.13
7.7% 47.3K
3.9
5.9% 36.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
521.3K
2. DE DE
27.2K
3. IE IE
17.3K
4. CA CA
16.9K
5. GB GB
16.8K
6. JP JP
14.8K
7. IN IN
13.0K
8. SG SG
11.9K
9. AU AU
10.7K
10. NL NL
7.5K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
January 22, 2013
Last Release
11 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.4.2
Total Releases
18
Contributors
15
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Alex Kuang, Anthony McClosky, Cyrus Durgin, Daniel Nephin, Dougal Matthews, Greg Roodt, Haïkel Guémar, Hugo Klepsch, J Derek Wilson, James Page, Jason Dunkelberger, Job Evers, Jonathan Herriott, Josh Marshall, Joshua Harlow, Justin Turner Arthur, Maxym Sh
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
decorator decorators retry retrying exception exponential backoff
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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