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python

typing-extensions

Backported and experimental type hints for 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.

typing-extensions has 1.6B monthly downloads and 577 GitHub stars. Version 4.16.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2017.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.

It is used by 18,412 tracked packages, including cryptography, aiobotocore and pydantic.

Downloads
Day
59.7M
Week
377.7M
Month
1.6B
Stars
577
Forks
137
Issues
13
Version
4.16.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
60
Adoption
80
Community
75
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,597,011,126
• 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
1,597,011,126
Stars
577
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
53,958,928
Month daily avg
53,233,704
Momentum
+1.4%
((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
PSF-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
4 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
5.9
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
91
Monthly downloads
1,597,011,126
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
73
 
Issue Burden
22.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
66.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 43.0M
Windows 1.5M
macOS 603.2K

Python Versions

3.12
32.3% 13.2M
3.11
24.4% 10.0M
3.10
21.0% 8.6M
3.13
12.6% 5.2M
3.9
9.7% 3.9M

Top Countries

1. US US
33.4M
2. SG SG
2.1M
3. IE IE
1.3M
4. IN IN
1.2M
5. DE DE
1.1M
6. NL NL
1.1M
7. GB GB
620.7K
8. JP JP
447.2K
9. BR BR
407.9K
10. CA CA
365.5K

Package Information

License
PSF-2.0
First Release
September 17, 2017
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
4.16.0
Total Releases
52
Contributors
91
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
annotations backport checker checking function hinting hints type typechecking typehinting typehints typing
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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