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scholarly-python-package

scholarly

Retrieve author and publication information from Google Scholar in a friendly, Pythonic way without having to worry about CAPTCHAs!
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

scholarly has 525K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.7.11, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2023.

It is used by 63 tracked packages, including biocontext-kb, mcp-scholarly and paperscraper.

GitHub topics include scholar, googlescholar and scholarly-articles.

Downloads
Day
17.2K
Week
88.1K
Month
525.4K
Stars
1.9K
Forks
349
Issues
54
Version
1.7.11

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
71
Adoption
57
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
105 days ago
Monthly downloads
525,426
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
525,426
Stars
1,873
Stars per 1k downloads
3.56
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
12,585
Month daily avg
17,514
Momentum
-28.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
1267 days ago
Total releases
59
Releases/year
5.1
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
14
Monthly downloads
525,426
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
73
 
Issue Burden
28.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
20.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1162d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 5.2K
Windows 195
macOS 95

Python Versions

3.12
58.9% 3.1K
3.11
15.1% 803
3.14
13.5% 716
3.13
6.9% 364
3.10
5.6% 296

Top Countries

1. US US
4.8K
2. SG SG
206
3. CN CN
110
4. HK HK
96
5. JP JP
55
6. DE DE
51
7. FR FR
31
8. IN IN
26
9. DK DK
15
10. KR KR
14

Package Information

License
Unlicense
First Release
December 20, 2014
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
1.7.11
Total Releases
59
Contributors
14
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Steven A. Cholewiak, Panos Ipeirotis, Victor Silva, Arun Kannawadi
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Google Scholar academics citations
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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