PyRank
ethereum

rlp

The python RLP serialization library
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

rlp has 5.5M monthly downloads and 102 GitHub stars. Version 4.1.0 supports Python <4,>=3.8, first published in 2015.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2025.

It is built on top of eth-utils. It is used by 125 tracked packages, including py-evm, eth-account and eth-rlp.

Downloads
Day
183.3K
Week
1.2M
Month
5.5M
Stars
102
Forks
68
Issues
8
Version
4.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
206 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,490,977
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
5,490,977
Stars
102
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
173,359
Month daily avg
183,033
Momentum
-5.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.8
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
MIT
• 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
517 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
4.2
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
31
Monthly downloads
5,490,977
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
65
 
Issue Burden
78.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
45.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
310d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 123.4K
Windows 2.7K
macOS 2.4K

Python Versions

3.12
38.5% 46.3K
3.11
32.0% 38.6K
3.13
12.6% 15.2K
3.10
8.8% 10.6K
3.14
8.0% 9.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
96.5K
2. SG SG
5.1K
3. IE IE
4.9K
4. DE DE
2.9K
5. KR KR
2.1K
6. NL NL
2.0K
7. CA CA
1.9K
8. JP JP
1.5K
9. RU RU
1.3K
10. BE BE
1.1K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
March 16, 2015
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
6 months ago
Latest Version
4.1.0
Total Releases
47
Contributors
31
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
jnnk
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
rlp ethereum
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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