No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
shot-scraper has 121K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.10 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2022.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of click, click-default-group and playwright. It is used by 3 tracked packages, including newshomepages, atlasui and llama-d5.
GitHub topics include playwright, playwright-python and scraping.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
68
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
120,895
•
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
120,895
Stars
2,425
Stars per 1k downloads
20.06
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
4,462
Month daily avg
4,030
Momentum
+10.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
Apache-2.0
•
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
6 days ago
Total releases
36
Releases/year
8.3
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
120,895
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
21.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.7%
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
3.7K
macOS
29
Windows
4
Python Versions
3.12
70.8%
2.7K
3.13
12.4%
467
3.10
8.5%
320
3.11
7.4%
278
3.14
0.9%
32
Top Countries
1.
US
3.7K
US
2.
JP
14
JP
3.
GB
8
GB
4.
NZ
8
NZ
5.
BR
4
BR
6.
PL
4
PL
7.
SG
4
SG
8.
KR
3
KR
9.
AU
2
AU
10.
BD
2
BD
Dependencies
5
- click
- click-default-group
- playwright >=1.61.0
- pydantic
- pyyaml
Used By
3
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
March 8, 2022
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.10
Total Releases
36
Contributors
20
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Simon Willison
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh