Monthly downloads
1.0M
Weekly downloads
288.4K
GitHub stars
536

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
Requires Python
>=2.7
Licence
MIT
Last Release
3 years ago
Author
Chris Down
First Release
February 27, 2015
Total Releases
30
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
55
Adoption
100
Community
35
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1079 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,019,301
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
1,019,301
Stars
536
Stars per 1k downloads
0.53
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
41,202
Month daily avg
33,977
Momentum
+21.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
1298 days ago
Total releases
30
Releases/year
2.6
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
7
Monthly downloads
1,019,301
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
42
 
Issue Burden
11.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
218d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 30.2K
Windows 5.6K
macOS 1.8K

Python Versions

3.10
30.4% 11.1K
3.12
28.9% 10.6K
3.13
22.6% 8.3K
3.11
11.3% 4.1K
3.14
6.8% 2.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
22.4K
2. SG SG
2.8K
3. CN CN
1.6K
4. RU RU
1.6K
5. HK HK
1.2K
6. IN IN
832
7. DE DE
775
8. KR KR
626
9. AU AU
422
10. NL NL
409

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
No dependencies

Used By

84
View all 84 dependents

Repository details

Forks
57
Issues
6
Last Commit
2 years ago
Contributors
7
Open PRs
5
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
srt
Sources and methodology