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jbardin

scp

scp module for paramiko
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

scp has 12.5M monthly downloads and 556 GitHub stars. Version 0.15.0, first published in 2013.

It is minimally maintained under a copyleft license, last released in May 2024.

It is built on top of paramiko. It is used by 142 tracked packages, including azure-cli, netmiko and junos-eznc.

Downloads
Day
456.3K
Week
3.0M
Month
12.5M
Stars
556
Forks
137
Issues
18
Version
0.15.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
59
Adoption
80
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
256 days ago
Monthly downloads
12,519,262
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
12,519,262
Stars
556
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
• 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
422,622
Month daily avg
417,309
Momentum
+1.3%
((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
LGPL-2.1-or-later
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
774 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
2.2
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
21
Monthly downloads
12,519,262
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
68
 
Issue Burden
32.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
517d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 204.1K
Windows 12.6K
macOS 918

Python Versions

3.11
33.0% 63.0K
3.12
29.7% 56.9K
3.10
22.7% 43.3K
3.9
8.6% 16.4K
3.13
6.0% 11.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
154.5K
2. IE IE
15.9K
3. NL NL
9.4K
4. DE DE
6.4K
5. AU AU
4.1K
6. GB GB
3.9K
7. FR FR
3.4K
8. CA CA
3.2K
9. CH CH
2.4K
10. IN IN
1.6K

Package Information

License
LGPL-2.1-or-later
First Release
April 8, 2013
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
0.15.0
Total Releases
29
Contributors
21
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
James Bardin
Python Versions
2.6 2.7 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
paramiko ssh scp transfer
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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