No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
sparklines has 22.4M monthly downloads and 129 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of termcolor. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including clemcore, epymorph and panoptes-pocs.
GitHub topics include command-line-tool, graphs and ascii.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- Moderate bus factor: only 9 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
39
Adoption
60
Community
10
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
17 days ago
Monthly downloads
22,362,066
•
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
22,362,066
Stars
129
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
269,095
Month daily avg
745,402
Momentum
-63.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
28 days ago
Total releases
9
Releases/year
0.9
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
9
Monthly downloads
22,362,066
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
24
Issue Burden
7.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
100.0%
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
193.0K
macOS
159
Windows
89
Python Versions
3.10
96.8%
187.0K
3.11
3.0%
5.9K
3.12
0.1%
251
3.14
0.0%
60
3.13
0.0%
48
Top Countries
1.
US
174.6K
US
2.
KR
6.7K
KR
3.
DE
4.9K
DE
4.
CN
1.5K
CN
5.
GB
1.4K
GB
6.
FR
1.1K
FR
7.
NL
970
NL
8.
ES
755
ES
9.
IT
498
IT
10.
CA
269
CA
Dependencies
1
- termcolor >=2.4.0
5 optional dependencies
- mypy[dev]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- tomli[test]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
May 18, 2016
Last Release
4 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
9
Contributors
9
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh