PyRank
adamchainz

time-machine

Travel through time in your tests.
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

time-machine has 28.5M monthly downloads and 979 GitHub stars. Version 3.2.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2020.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.

It is used by 28 tracked packages, including sqlmesh, web-poet and scrapy-poet.

GitHub topics include time and testing.

Downloads
Day
659.2K
Week
5.1M
Month
28.5M
Stars
979
Forks
48
Issues
14
Version
3.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
58
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
24 days ago
Monthly downloads
28,523,664
• 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
28,523,664
Stars
979
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
• 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
726,967
Month daily avg
950,789
Momentum
-23.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
201 days ago
Total releases
39
Releases/year
6.3
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
26
Monthly downloads
28,523,664
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
49
 
Issue Burden
14.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
54.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
176d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 485.3K
Windows 4.4K
macOS 1.9K

Python Versions

3.10
34.7% 155.6K
3.11
25.6% 114.5K
3.12
20.3% 91.0K
3.13
10.6% 47.4K
3.14
8.8% 39.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
428.5K
2. IE IE
29.1K
3. CA CA
8.7K
4. DE DE
7.9K
5. SG SG
4.2K
6. BR BR
3.3K
7. GB GB
3.1K
8. NL NL
2.3K
9. JP JP
2.0K
10. IN IN
2.0K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 4, 2020
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
3.2.0
Total Releases
39
Contributors
26
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
date datetime mock test testing tests time warp
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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