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telnetlib3

Feature-rich Telnet Server, Client, and Protocol library for Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

telnetlib3 has 1.4M monthly downloads and 173 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.5 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of blessed and wcwidth. It is used by 57 tracked packages, including aiomonitor, allianceauth and pylutron.

Downloads
Day
43.1K
Week
330.1K
Month
1.4M
Stars
173
Forks
41
Issues
0
Version
4.0.5

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
47
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
18 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,351,258
• 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
1,351,258
Stars
173
Stars per 1k downloads
0.13
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
47,153
Month daily avg
45,042
Momentum
+4.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
ISC
• 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
18 days ago
Total releases
39
Releases/year
3.2
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
15
Monthly downloads
1,351,258
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
50
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
17.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.6%
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 27.9K
Windows 220
macOS 216

Python Versions

3.11
33.4% 9.3K
3.13
28.1% 7.8K
3.10
21.5% 6.0K
3.12
9.5% 2.6K
3.14
7.5% 2.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
12.9K
2. FI FI
10.2K
3. DE DE
1.7K
4. GB GB
1.2K
5. AU AU
1.1K
6. NO NO
199
7. PL PL
179
8. IN IN
149
9. SG SG
122
10. CN CN
71

Package Information

License
ISC
First Release
March 3, 2014
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
4.0.5
Total Releases
39
Contributors
15
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
api asyncio bbs client cp437 library mud pty server telnet utf8
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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