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simple-websocket

Simple WebSocket server and client 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.

simple-websocket has 28.9M monthly downloads and 89 GitHub stars. Version 1.1.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2021.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2024.

It is built on top of wsproto. It is used by 56 tracked packages, including python-engineio, flask-sock and docassemble-webapp.

GitHub topics include websocket.

Downloads
Day
956.0K
Week
6.4M
Month
28.9M
Stars
89
Forks
18
Issues
6
Version
1.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
40
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
53 days ago
Monthly downloads
28,863,240
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
28,863,240
Stars
89
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
914,891
Month daily avg
962,108
Momentum
-4.9%
((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
MIT License
• 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
634 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
3.3
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
3
Monthly downloads
28,863,240
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
30
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
581d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 537.5K
Windows 17.5K
macOS 7.3K

Python Versions

3.12
31.1% 167.0K
3.14
24.6% 132.4K
3.11
22.6% 121.6K
3.13
13.1% 70.6K
3.10
8.5% 45.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
284.6K
2. FR FR
109.4K
3. SG SG
48.0K
4. BE BE
28.5K
5. DE DE
20.5K
6. JP JP
12.8K
7. GB GB
11.6K
8. HK HK
4.2K
9. NL NL
4.2K
10. IE IE
4.1K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
April 17, 2021
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
1.1.0
Total Releases
17
Contributors
3
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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