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selectolax

Python binding to Modest and Lexbor engines. Fast HTML5 parser with CSS selectors for Python.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

selectolax has 6.3M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 0.4.10 supports Python <3.15,>=3.9, first published in 2018.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is used by 224 tracked packages, including mkdocs-glightbox, googlenewsdecoder and datamule.

GitHub topics include html5, css and web-scraping.

Downloads
Day
159.9K
Week
1.2M
Month
6.3M
Stars
1.6K
Forks
91
Issues
10
Version
0.4.10

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,257,732
• 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
6,257,732
Stars
1,647
Stars per 1k downloads
0.26
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
168,595
Month daily avg
208,591
Momentum
-19.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.15,>=3.9
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
42 days ago
Total releases
66
Releases/year
7.9
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
25
Monthly downloads
6,257,732
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
42
 
Issue Burden
6.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 94.1K
macOS 1.4K
Windows 1.2K

Python Versions

3.12
42.5% 39.8K
3.11
37.4% 35.1K
3.14
8.2% 7.7K
3.13
7.8% 7.3K
3.9
4.1% 3.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
65.8K
2. BR BR
15.6K
3. NO NO
3.6K
4. DE DE
2.0K
5. NL NL
1.9K
6. ZA ZA
1.8K
7. FR FR
603
8. BE BE
581
9. SG SG
448
10. RU RU
336
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
February 28, 2018
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
0.4.10
Total Releases
66
Contributors
25
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Artem Golubin
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp37
Keywords
selectolax html parser css fast lexbor modest
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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