No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
slackclient has 8M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 2.9.4 supports Python 3.6.0+, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2022.
It is used by 140 tracked packages, including bar-raiser, awehflow and paasta-tools.
GitHub topics include slack, slackapi and asyncio.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1533 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
79
Adoption
60
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,000,379
•
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
8,000,379
Stars
4,009
Stars per 1k downloads
0.50
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
234,986
Month daily avg
266,679
Momentum
-11.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6.0
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
1536 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
4.6
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
167
Monthly downloads
8,000,379
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
76
Issue Burden
9.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1533d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
133.8K
Windows
209
macOS
21
Python Versions
3.12
34.0%
42.5K
3.11
31.5%
39.5K
3.9
14.1%
17.7K
3.10
10.6%
13.2K
3.7
9.9%
12.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
76.0K
US
2.
IN
21.0K
IN
3.
AU
6.4K
AU
4.
CA
6.0K
CA
5.
IE
5.8K
IE
6.
NL
4.8K
NL
7.
DE
4.6K
DE
8.
BE
2.8K
BE
9.
SG
2.5K
SG
10.
ID
2.0K
ID
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
140
- bar-raiser
- awehflow
- paasta-tools
- zou
- rasa-core
- delphi-utils
- gnomad
- threedi-cmd
- agile-toolkit
- django-slackchat-serializer
- ci-buildbot
- botbuilder-adapters-slack
- chatqhelper
- broad-dagster-utils
- pipelx
- sdutils
- oncall
- algorin-cli
- bits-slack
- glados
- santoku
- django-slack-app
- heartbeatmonitor
- mypsl
- neuralnet-pytorch
- swimlane-records-updater
- aliceoverwatch
- daily
- kismet
- django-slack-forms
- 100bot
- politico-civic-ap-loader
- pbx-gs-python-utils
- flask-slack-template
- daniels
- cdwutils
- nameko-slack
- slacktivate
- flyonthewall
- clb
- zb-restqa
- notifly
- zb-common
- ppmail
- aichatbot
- trixi
- microns-utils
- perf-core
- meerk
- coffeeshop
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
February 13, 2015
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
2.9.4
Total Releases
52
Contributors
167
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Slack Technologies, LLC
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh