PyRank
kplindegaard

smbus2

A drop-in replacement for smbus-cffi/smbus-python in pure 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.
Downloads
Day
22.1K
Week
188.5K
Month
940.8K
Stars
270
Forks
66
Issues
27
Version
0.6.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
52
Adoption
59
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
83 days ago
Monthly downloads
940,762
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
940,762
Stars
270
Stars per 1k downloads
0.29
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
26,929
Month daily avg
31,359
Momentum
-14.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
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
88 days ago
Total releases
17
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
24
Monthly downloads
940,762
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
70
 
Issue Burden
100.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.4%
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 10.3K
Windows 69
macOS 52

Python Versions

3.13
31.9% 3.1K
3.11
28.1% 2.7K
3.12
17.2% 1.7K
3.10
13.3% 1.3K
3.14
9.5% 929

Top Countries

1. US US
7.9K
2. DK DK
406
3. DE DE
381
4. CH CH
249
5. SG SG
189
6. CN CN
163
7. IN IN
153
8. FR FR
143
9. TW TW
81
10. IL IL
65

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
April 4, 2016
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
0.6.1
Total Releases
17
Contributors
24
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Karl-Petter Lindegaard
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
smbus smbus2 python i2c raspberrypi linux
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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