PyRank
seatgeek

thefuzz

Fuzzy String Matching in Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

thefuzz has 10.3M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 0.22.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2021.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2024.

It is used by 335 tracked packages, including mcp-atlassian, tinybird and karaoke-gen.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (seatgeek/thefuzz) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
254.5K
Week
2.2M
Month
10.3M
Stars
3.6K
Forks
163
Issues
40
Version
0.22.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
72
Adoption
60
Community
35
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
491 days ago
Monthly downloads
10,294,270
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
10,294,270
Stars
3,639
Stars per 1k downloads
0.35
• 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
307,763
Month daily avg
343,142
Momentum
-10.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
900 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
0.8
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
10,294,270
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
43
 
Issue Burden
11.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
408d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 146.3K
Windows 3.0K
macOS 1.0K

Python Versions

3.11
43.5% 61.6K
3.12
34.7% 49.2K
3.10
11.8% 16.8K
3.13
6.3% 9.0K
3.14
3.6% 5.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
122.3K
2. HK HK
6.3K
3. JP JP
6.0K
4. IN IN
2.3K
5. NL NL
2.2K
6. GB GB
2.2K
7. DE DE
2.2K
8. IE IE
878
9. SG SG
753
10. SE SE
558

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
September 9, 2021
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
0.22.1
Total Releases
4
Contributors
15
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Adam Cohen
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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