PyRank
dvarrazzo

setproctitle

A Python module to customize the process title
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

setproctitle has 66.3M monthly downloads and 557 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.7 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2009.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.

It is used by 361 tracked packages, including sglang, apache-airflow-core and vllm.

Downloads
Day
1.5M
Week
12.0M
Month
66.3M
Stars
557
Forks
73
Issues
11
Version
1.3.7

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
57
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
242 days ago
Monthly downloads
66,330,188
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
66,330,188
Stars
557
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
1,709,269
Month daily avg
2,211,006
Momentum
-22.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
304 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
1.7
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
20
Monthly downloads
66,330,188
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
58
 
Issue Burden
19.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
9.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
27.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
62d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.1M
macOS 12.5K
Windows 9.3K

Python Versions

3.10
35.9% 378.2K
3.7
23.3% 246.1K
3.12
19.8% 208.9K
3.11
13.7% 144.3K
3.13
7.3% 76.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.0M
2. IE IE
16.6K
3. KR KR
16.0K
4. DE DE
14.5K
5. SG SG
13.2K
6. GB GB
7.9K
7. NL NL
6.3K
8. AU AU
5.8K
9. NO NO
4.7K
10. CN CN
4.5K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
December 5, 2009
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
1.3.7
Total Releases
29
Contributors
20
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Daniele Varrazzo
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp310 pp311 pp37 pp38 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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