No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
types-chardet has 1.2M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 5.0.4.6, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2023.
It is used by 2 tracked packages, including ywh2bt and blackdogosint.
GitHub topics include stub, types and typing.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1152 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
81
Adoption
70
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,222,593
•
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
1,222,593
Stars
5,089
Stars per 1k downloads
4.16
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
38,405
Month daily avg
40,753
Momentum
-5.8%
((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
Apache-2.0 license
•
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
1153 days ago
Total releases
22
Releases/year
4.1
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
1,594
Monthly downloads
1,222,593
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
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Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
80
Issue Burden
44.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
77.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1152d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
11.9K
Windows
834
macOS
98
Python Versions
3.11
38.8%
4.7K
3.13
19.6%
2.4K
3.14
18.4%
2.2K
3.12
14.7%
1.8K
3.10
8.5%
1.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
10.3K
US
2.
GB
1.3K
GB
3.
SG
430
SG
4.
HK
221
HK
5.
IE
207
IE
6.
DE
75
DE
7.
AU
64
AU
8.
AT
44
AT
9.
NL
34
NL
10.
DK
33
DK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
2
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0 license
First Release
February 2, 2021
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
Yesterday
Latest Version
5.0.4.6
Total Releases
22
Contributors
1,594
Open PRs
144
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh