No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
textdistance has 2.4M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 4.6.3 supports Python 3.5+, first published in 2017.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2024.
It is used by 58 tracked packages, including edgartools, spyder and graphdatascience.
GitHub topics include distance, algorithm and textdistance.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
73
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
444 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,449,069
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
2,449,069
Stars
3,535
Stars per 1k downloads
1.44
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
76,273
Month daily avg
81,636
Momentum
-6.6%
((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
720 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
3.1
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
2,449,069
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
34
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
276d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
49.2K
macOS
1.5K
Windows
944
Python Versions
3.12
36.4%
17.3K
3.11
24.0%
11.4K
3.10
16.1%
7.7K
3.13
14.7%
7.0K
3.14
8.8%
4.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
40.4K
US
2.
CA
2.9K
CA
3.
DE
1.3K
DE
4.
IE
1.1K
IE
5.
AU
960
AU
6.
FI
884
FI
7.
NL
608
NL
8.
SG
593
SG
9.
FR
536
FR
10.
KR
467
KR
Dependencies
0
74 optional dependencies
- distance[all]
- distance[benchmark]
- distance[benchmarks]
- distance[hamming]
- flake8[lint]
- flake8-blind-except[lint]
- flake8-bugbear[lint]
- flake8-commas[lint]
- flake8-logging-format[lint]
- flake8-mutable[lint]
- flake8-pep3101[lint]
- flake8-quotes[lint]
- flake8-string-format[lint]
- flake8-tidy-imports[lint]
- hypothesis[test]
- isort[lint]
- isort[test]
- jellyfish[all]
- jellyfish[benchmark]
- jellyfish[benchmarks]
- jellyfish[common]
- jellyfish[dameraulevenshtein]
- jellyfish[extra]
- jellyfish[extras]
- jellyfish[hamming]
- jellyfish[jarowinkler]
- levenshtein[all]
- levenshtein[benchmark]
- levenshtein[benchmarks]
- levenshtein[common]
- levenshtein[extra]
- levenshtein[extras]
- levenshtein[hamming]
- levenshtein[jaro]
- levenshtein[levenshtein]
- mypy[lint]
- numpy[all]
- numpy[benchmark]
- numpy[benchmarks]
- numpy[common]
- numpy[extra]
- numpy[extras]
- numpy[test]
- pep8-naming[lint]
- py-stringmatching[all]
- py-stringmatching[benchmark]
- py-stringmatching[benchmarks]
- pylev[all]
- pylev[benchmark]
- pylev[benchmarks]
- pytest[test]
- pyxdameraulevenshtein[all]
- pyxdameraulevenshtein[benchmark]
- pyxdameraulevenshtein[benchmarks]
- pyxdameraulevenshtein[common]
- pyxdameraulevenshtein[dameraulevenshtein]
- pyxdameraulevenshtein[extra]
- pyxdameraulevenshtein[extras]
- rapidfuzz[all]
- rapidfuzz[benchmark]
- rapidfuzz[benchmarks]
- rapidfuzz[common]
- rapidfuzz[dameraulevenshtein]
- rapidfuzz[extra]
- rapidfuzz[extras]
- rapidfuzz[hamming]
- rapidfuzz[jaro]
- rapidfuzz[jarowinkler]
- rapidfuzz[levenshtein]
- tabulate[all]
- tabulate[benchmark]
- tabulate[benchmarks]
- twine[lint]
- types-tabulate[lint]
Used By
58
- edgartools
- spyder
- graphdatascience
- athina
- aeonlang
- computer-use-ootb-internal
- crim-intervals
- ubox-py-sdk
- pyriksdagen
- mirpy-lib
- edgartools-async
- ryvencore-qt
- ryven
- useit-client
- hilary
- deeponto
- kaithem
- turnvoice
- emzed-spyder
- opqua
- pylaia
- evalnlp
- uniparser-morph
- syntheseus-root-aligned
- aphylogeo
- socialgene
- taskflows
- conference-radar
- panoocr
- cognite-power-sdk
- sonad
- python-snippet
- mcp-nlp
- resurfemg
- imaps
- maxbot
- comic-ocr
- maspim
- aqudem
- karaokemanager
- uma-pydi
- sinergox
- ontorunner
- paragraph2actions
- dp-ai-data-harmonization
- ppi-origami
- mesi
- pd3f
- puregym-attendance
- datadagger
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
May 5, 2017
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
4.6.3
Total Releases
28
Contributors
15
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
orsinium
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh