No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
trufflehog has 133K monthly downloads and 27K GitHub stars. Version 2.1.13, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained, last released in Apr 2021.
It is used by 2 tracked packages, including patcha and secflow.
GitHub topics include secret, trufflehog and credentials.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1892 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
92
Adoption
61
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
133,484
•
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
133,484
Stars
26,953
Stars per 1k downloads
201.92
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
4,438
Month daily avg
4,449
Momentum
-0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
GNU
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
1896 days ago
Total releases
42
Releases/year
4.5
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
193
Monthly downloads
133,484
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
64
Issue Burden
9.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1892d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.4K
Windows
139
macOS
4
Python Versions
3.12
36.6%
504
3.11
32.3%
445
3.13
12.7%
175
3.7
9.8%
135
3.10
8.6%
118
Top Countries
1.
US
1.2K
US
2.
IN
65
IN
3.
HK
59
HK
4.
IE
37
IE
5.
SG
31
SG
6.
AU
22
AU
7.
GB
18
GB
8.
CN
13
CN
9.
BE
12
BE
10.
ID
11
ID
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
GNU
First Release
February 26, 2017
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
2.1.13
Total Releases
42
Contributors
193
Open PRs
244
Archived
No
Author
Dylan Ayrey
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh