PyRank
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update-checker

A python module that will check for package updates.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

update-checker has 2.6M monthly downloads and 30 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2012.

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

It is used by 51 tracked packages, including praw, dbt-metricflow and asyncpraw.

GitHub topics include cli, packaging and version-check.

Downloads
Day
76.5K
Week
528.7K
Month
2.6M
Stars
30
Forks
6
Issues
0
Version
1.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
60
Popularity
29
Adoption
60
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,581,165
• 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
2,581,165
Stars
30
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
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
75,527
Month daily avg
86,039
Momentum
-12.2%
((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
BSD-2-Clause
• 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
28 days ago
Total releases
1
Releases/year
0.1
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
5
Monthly downloads
2,581,165
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
33
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
83.3%
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 53.2K
macOS 1.0K
Windows 917

Python Versions

3.11
40.7% 20.9K
3.12
29.2% 15.0K
3.10
13.0% 6.7K
3.14
10.5% 5.4K
3.13
6.6% 3.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
46.3K
2. DE DE
2.2K
3. IE IE
1.1K
4. BE BE
1.0K
5. IN IN
827
6. NL NL
704
7. GB GB
634
8. CN CN
521
9. SG SG
449
10. HK HK
357
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
November 4, 2012
Last Release
4 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.0.0
Total Releases
1
Contributors
5
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Bryce Boe
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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