No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
svglib has 5.4M monthly downloads and 371 GitHub stars. Version 2.0.2 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2008.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of cssselect2, lxml and pillow. It is used by 120 tracked packages, including xhtml2pdf, llama-index-readers-confluence and django-filer.
GitHub topics include svg, pdf and pdf-generation.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
55
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,446,216
•
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
5,446,216
Stars
371
Stars per 1k downloads
0.07
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
163,009
Month daily avg
181,541
Momentum
-10.2%
((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
LGPL-3.0-or-later
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
19 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
1.5
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
32
Monthly downloads
5,446,216
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
126.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
27.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.8%
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
74.1K
Windows
13.1K
macOS
2.5K
Python Versions
3.12
38.1%
32.8K
3.11
26.8%
23.0K
3.13
13.4%
11.5K
3.10
13.3%
11.4K
3.14
8.4%
7.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
52.9K
US
2.
JP
9.1K
JP
3.
DE
4.7K
DE
4.
CN
3.7K
CN
5.
IN
2.4K
IN
6.
SG
2.0K
SG
7.
ID
1.4K
ID
8.
NL
1.4K
NL
9.
IE
962
IE
10.
KR
876
KR
Used By
120
- xhtml2pdf
- llama-index-readers-confluence
- django-filer
- bloomerp
- z3c-rml
- ppt-master
- draftwright
- typhoontest
- remarkablesync
- slicap
- steam-sdk
- sphinx-a4doc
- pytigon-lib
- hexdoc
- juntagrico
- glupredkit
- supernotelib
- pyice-adi
- rmrl
- rtsvg
- openbb-terminal-nightly
- esch
- scorecardpipeline
- favicons
- juntagrico-billing
- pytigon-batteries
- alita-tools
- django-advanced-pdf
- mcp-server-okppt
- atform
- easyreflectometry
- fontforge-color-font
- splitter-mr
- autobasedoc
- pdfmarq
- mcp-image-reader
- pawpyrus
- nodetool
- alerts-in-ua-py
- cartograpy
- strucgap
- simfire
- doc-workflow
- kivygo
- tuhls-core
- newline-iwb-converter
- fretboardgtr
- opencv-pattern
- dotagent
- onegov-pdf
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
LGPL-3.0-or-later
First Release
September 26, 2008
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
2.0.2
Total Releases
27
Contributors
32
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Dinu Gherman
Python Versions
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