Monthly downloads
9.0M
Weekly downloads
2.1M
GitHub stars
555
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
LGPL-2.1-or-later
Last Release
1 week ago
Author
James Bardin
First Release
April 8, 2013
Total Releases
32
Python Versions
2.6
2.7
3
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
59
Adoption
70
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,980,829
•
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
8,980,829
Stars
555
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
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
296,448
Month daily avg
299,361
Momentum
-1.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
9 days ago
Total releases
32
Releases/year
2.4
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
24
Monthly downloads
8,980,829
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
69
Issue Burden
32.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
164.6K
Windows
7.7K
macOS
970
Python Versions
3.10
31.5%
47.1K
3.12
29.5%
44.2K
3.11
18.8%
28.2K
3.14
11.9%
17.8K
3.9
8.4%
12.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
128.3K
US
2.
IE
12.2K
IE
3.
NO
6.1K
NO
4.
GB
4.0K
GB
5.
NL
3.8K
NL
6.
DE
3.4K
DE
7.
CA
2.0K
CA
8.
FR
1.9K
FR
9.
IN
1.5K
IN
10.
AU
1.4K
AU
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
1
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