No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
telethon has 3.4M monthly downloads and 12K GitHub stars. Version 1.44.0 supports Python 3.5+, first published in 2016.
Its repository is archived and was distributed under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of pyaes and rsa. It is used by 290 tracked packages, including pygpt-net, better-telegram-mcp and tgparser-cli.
GitHub topics include library, telegram and telegram-api.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
13
Popularity
87
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
135 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,392,471
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
3,392,471
Stars
12,035
Stars per 1k downloads
3.55
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
107,949
Month daily avg
113,082
Momentum
-4.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.5
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
21 days ago
Total releases
240
Releases/year
24.5
•
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
186
Monthly downloads
3,392,471
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
48
Issue Burden
0.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.4%
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
96.2K
Windows
5.4K
macOS
1.3K
Python Versions
3.12
42.4%
42.5K
3.11
31.9%
31.9K
3.10
9.6%
9.6K
3.13
8.9%
8.9K
3.14
7.2%
7.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
67.8K
US
2.
DE
11.2K
DE
3.
RU
2.5K
RU
4.
SG
2.1K
SG
5.
GB
1.9K
GB
6.
NL
1.8K
NL
7.
IN
1.4K
IN
8.
IE
1.4K
IE
9.
FI
1.2K
FI
10.
BE
1.1K
BE
Used By
290
- pygpt-net
- better-telegram-mcp
- tgparser-cli
- fast-mcp-telegram
- opentele2
- grabberlib2
- afkbotio
- octobot
- embykeeper
- pkbrokers
- meshagent-telegram
- fink-anomaly-detection-model
- modulitiz-micro
- iamlistening
- aiofasttelethonhelper
- ztx-calendar
- tlgrm
- dsbin
- auto-archiver
- telegram-download-chat
- bagbag
- telegramlens-mcp
- sticker-convert
- abhicalls
- starco
- telegram-assistant
- mediaflow-proxy
- tgeraser
- telethon-cli
- cligram
- py-ayiin
- kos-htools
- tg-mcp-server
- tgcf
- telegram-phone-number-checker
- tg-auto-test
- yaichi-tg
- tg-ringer
- opentele-ng
- tg-login
- telegrammanager
- tg-msg-manager
- aylak
- rsstt
- televault
- django-telethon
- tgbotfinder
- scrapemm
- tdata-reader
- bot-managers
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 18, 2016
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
1.44.0
Total Releases
240
Contributors
186
Open PRs
0
Archived
Yes
Python Versions
3
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh