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shortuuid

A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

shortuuid has 14.5M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.0.13 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2011.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2024.

It is used by 356 tracked packages, including inspect-ai, harbor and dvc.

Downloads
Day
586.7K
Week
3.7M
Month
14.5M
Stars
2.2K
Forks
117
Issues
0
Version
1.0.13

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
67
Adoption
90
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
16 days ago
Monthly downloads
14,466,987
• 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
14,466,987
Stars
2,188
Stars per 1k downloads
0.15
• 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
531,968
Month daily avg
482,233
Momentum
+10.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
847 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
1.6
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
37
Monthly downloads
14,466,987
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
32
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
31.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
830d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 370.2K
Windows 4.8K
macOS 2.3K

Python Versions

3.12
72.1% 251.7K
3.13
12.4% 43.3K
3.11
7.5% 26.3K
3.10
4.4% 15.3K
3.9
3.6% 12.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
316.3K
2. SG SG
18.5K
3. DE DE
6.3K
4. CA CA
5.2K
5. IE IE
4.6K
6. IT IT
3.2K
7. GB GB
2.9K
8. KR KR
2.8K
9. JP JP
2.5K
10. NL NL
1.9K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
January 8, 2011
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.0.13
Total Releases
25
Contributors
37
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Stavros Korokithakis
Python Versions
3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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