PyRank
polkascan

substrate-interface

Python Polkadot SDK
PyPI GitHub

Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (polkascan/py-substrate-interface) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
8.4K
Week
52.1K
Month
216.1K
Stars
259
Forks
123
Issues
38
Version
1.8.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
54
Adoption
73
Community
65
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
122 days ago
Monthly downloads
216,119
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
216,119
Stars
259
Stars per 1k downloads
1.20
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
7,449
Month daily avg
7,204
Momentum
+3.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4,>=3.7
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
Apache Software License
• 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
122 days ago
Total releases
138
Releases/year
22.0
• 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
18
Monthly downloads
216,119
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
83
 
Issue Burden
146.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
139.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.2K
macOS 34
Windows 20

Python Versions

3.11
57.7% 2.3K
3.12
17.6% 706
3.10
9.8% 394
3.13
9.5% 382
3.9
5.3% 214

Top Countries

1. US US
2.6K
2. IE IE
1.5K
3. SG SG
103
4. JP JP
96
5. CA CA
61
6. CN CN
43
7. GB GB
37
8. DE DE
30
9. AU AU
15
10. NL NL
10

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache Software License
First Release
February 13, 2020
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.8.1
Total Releases
138
Contributors
18
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Author
Stichting Polkascan (Polkascan Foundation)
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py3
Keywords
interface polkascan polkadot substrate blockchain rpc kusama
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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