PyRank
deanmalmgren

textract

extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.
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textract has 489K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 2.0.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2014.

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

It is built on top of argcomplete, beautifulsoup4 and chardet. It is used by 20 tracked packages, including openstates, hypertag and autothemegenerator.

GitHub topics include natural-language-processing, data-mining and text-mining.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (deanmalmgren/textract) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
13.9K
Week
114.3K
Month
488.8K
Stars
4.7K
Forks
700
Issues
77
Version
2.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
79
Adoption
76
Community
55
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
488,845
• 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
488,845
Stars
4,651
Stars per 1k downloads
9.51
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
16,325
Month daily avg
16,295
Momentum
+0.2%
((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
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
70 days ago
Total releases
18
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
41
Monthly downloads
488,845
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
61
 
Issue Burden
16.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
68d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 4.4K
Windows 1.8K
macOS 128

Python Versions

3.12
34.0% 2.0K
3.11
25.6% 1.5K
3.13
18.9% 1.1K
3.10
16.6% 955
3.14
4.8% 276

Top Countries

1. US US
3.0K
2. CN CN
1.9K
3. IN IN
334
4. NL NL
234
5. SG SG
178
6. IE IE
139
7. HK HK
101
8. DE DE
80
9. RU RU
70
10. GB GB
67
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 4, 2014
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
2.0.0
Total Releases
18
Contributors
41
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Dean Malmgren
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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