Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 100 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
53
Adoption
57
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
60,102
•
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
60,102
Stars
198
Stars per 1k downloads
3.29
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
1,873
Month daily avg
2,003
Momentum
-6.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
BSD 3-Clause
•
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
108 days ago
Total releases
48
Releases/year
4.3
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
214
Monthly downloads
60,102
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
86
Issue Burden
1005.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
15.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
158.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
100d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
758
macOS
20
Windows
3
Python Versions
3.11
36.3%
254
3.12
26.0%
182
3.10
18.9%
132
3.8
9.6%
67
3.13
9.2%
64
Top Countries
1.
US
739
US
2.
SG
50
SG
3.
IE
29
IE
4.
HK
24
HK
5.
FR
16
FR
6.
IN
10
IN
7.
CN
9
CN
8.
JP
7
JP
9.
AU
5
AU
10.
BR
3
BR
Dependencies
7
10 optional dependencies
- graphviz[docs]
- matplotlib[test]
- matplotlib[docs]
- pytest-asdf-plugin[test]
- pytest-astropy[test]
- spectral-cube[test]
- sphinx[docs]
- sphinx-astropy[docs]
- stdatamodels[jwst]
- tox[test]
Used By
52
- specreduce
- glue-astronomy
- tomtoolkit
- jdaviz
- sparclclient
- lightweaver
- pyxel-sim
- solarc-eclipse
- astro-datalab
- soxspipe
- mpdaf
- astro-prost
- astrodbkit2
- pyspextool
- astrodb-utils
- moonindex
- spears
- ezphot
- astro-drpy
- luxetc
- astrodbkit
- visualastro
- syotools
- milespy
- meafs
- dysh
- parvati
- pykosmos
- muler
- redmost
- pto-transits
- daofun
- rv-data-standard
- quipuskyfree
- spectra-ez-download
- expecto
- spectacle
- mcfine
- gollum
- pydiet
- astrosn
- specbox
- terminally-aspired
- pyxcsao
- mkidpipeline
- owls-app
- aesop-arces
- measure-spec
- pykosmos-jradavenport
- pytodcor
Package Information
License
BSD 3-Clause
First Release
April 22, 2015
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.3.0
Total Releases
48
Contributors
214
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Specutils Developers
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh