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twine

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twine has 35.3M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 6.2.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.

It is built on top of id, importlib-metadata and keyring. It is used by 2,166 tracked packages, including static-ffmpeg, python-okx and uv-iso-env.

GitHub topics include wheel, python-wheel and pypi-package.

Downloads
Day
1.2M
Week
8.2M
Month
35.3M
Stars
1.8K
Forks
330
Issues
45
Version
6.2.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
70
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
58 days ago
Monthly downloads
35,341,452
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
35,341,452
Stars
1,780
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
• 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
1,165,367
Month daily avg
1,178,048
Momentum
-1.1%
((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
Apache-2.0
• 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
305 days ago
Total releases
59
Releases/year
4.6
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
176
Monthly downloads
35,341,452
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
81
 
Issue Burden
25.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
53.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
247d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 916.3K
macOS 16.4K
Windows 14.9K

Python Versions

3.10
64.0% 586.5K
3.11
13.5% 124.0K
3.12
10.9% 99.5K
3.13
7.3% 66.7K
3.14
4.4% 40.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
844.7K
2. DE DE
14.9K
3. SG SG
12.3K
4. IE IE
12.0K
5. CA CA
11.8K
6. NL NL
11.2K
7. GB GB
8.5K
8. AU AU
5.3K
9. IN IN
5.0K
10. CN CN
3.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
September 26, 2013
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
6.2.0
Total Releases
59
Contributors
176
Open PRs
17
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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