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scapy

Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

scapy has 7.2M monthly downloads and 12K GitHub stars. Version 2.7.0 supports Python <4,>=3.7, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Dec 2025.

It is used by 335 tracked packages, including cocotb-bus, plugp100 and aiodhcpwatcher.

GitHub topics include scapy, network and network-analysis.

Downloads
Day
214.5K
Week
1.6M
Month
7.2M
Stars
12.4K
Forks
2.2K
Issues
71
Version
2.7.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
87
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
7,156,696
• 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
7,156,696
Stars
12,401
Stars per 1k downloads
1.73
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
229,438
Month daily avg
238,557
Momentum
-3.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.7
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
GPL-2.0-only
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
192 days ago
Total releases
32
Releases/year
2.5
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
462
Monthly downloads
7,156,696
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
72
 
Issue Burden
5.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
189d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 162.8K
Windows 3.1K
macOS 849

Python Versions

3.7
67.9% 103.7K
3.12
10.9% 16.7K
3.13
9.7% 14.8K
3.10
6.4% 9.8K
3.11
5.1% 7.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
62.9K
2. IL IL
8.1K
3. CA CA
7.3K
4. IN IN
7.1K
5. JP JP
6.8K
6. AU AU
6.7K
7. SG SG
5.2K
8. DE DE
4.9K
9. IE IE
4.5K
10. KR KR
4.2K

Package Information

License
GPL-2.0-only
First Release
October 12, 2013
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
2.7.0
Total Releases
32
Contributors
462
Open PRs
65
Archived
No
Author
Philippe BIONDI, Gabriel POTTER
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
network
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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