PyRank
plamere

spotipy

A light weight Python library for the Spotify Web API
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

spotipy has 450K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 2.26.0 supports Python >3.8, first published in 2010.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of redis, requests and urllib3. It is used by 222 tracked packages, including spotdl, ovos-media-plugin-spotify and spotify-dl.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (plamere/spotipy) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
14.3K
Week
98.8K
Month
450.4K
Stars
5.5K
Forks
974
Issues
51
Version
2.26.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
82
Adoption
66
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
118 days ago
Monthly downloads
450,350
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
450,350
Stars
5,452
Stars per 1k downloads
12.11
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
14,113
Month daily avg
15,012
Momentum
-6.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>3.8
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
126 days ago
Total releases
53
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
195
Monthly downloads
450,350
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
72
 
Issue Burden
9.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.0%
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 11.2K
Windows 2.0K
macOS 566

Python Versions

3.12
32.8% 4.3K
3.11
28.5% 3.7K
3.14
16.3% 2.1K
3.13
12.2% 1.6K
3.10
10.3% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
9.3K
2. DE DE
675
3. ES ES
457
4. GB GB
298
5. IN IN
239
6. BR BR
215
7. NL NL
197
8. SG SG
176
9. FR FR
170
10. CA CA
113

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 17, 2010
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
2.26.0
Total Releases
53
Contributors
195
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Author
@plamere
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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