PyRank
urwid

urwid

Console user interface library for Python (official repo)
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

urwid has 6.9M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 4.0.3 supports Python 3.9.0+, first published in 2012.

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

It is built on top of typing-extensions and wcwidth. It is used by 181 tracked packages, including mitmproxy, pudb and urwid-readline.

Downloads
Day
219.1K
Week
1.5M
Month
6.9M
Stars
3.0K
Forks
335
Issues
126
Version
4.0.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
73
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,865,118
• 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
6,865,118
Stars
3,011
Stars per 1k downloads
0.44
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
220,058
Month daily avg
228,837
Momentum
-3.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
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
LGPL-2.1-only
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
12 days ago
Total releases
58
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
141
Monthly downloads
6,865,118
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
66
 
Issue Burden
41.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.1%
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 77.7K
Windows 3.4K
macOS 1.3K

Python Versions

3.12
36.9% 27.2K
3.11
22.9% 16.9K
3.13
19.8% 14.5K
3.8
12.0% 8.8K
3.14
8.4% 6.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
66.5K
2. DE DE
3.8K
3. IE IE
3.1K
4. CN CN
1.2K
5. IN IN
1.2K
6. SG SG
919
7. GB GB
705
8. FR FR
484
9. BR BR
418
10. JP JP
350

Package Information

License
LGPL-2.1-only
First Release
July 13, 2012
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
4.0.3
Total Releases
58
Contributors
141
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp312 cp37 cp38 cp39 py3
Keywords
console curses listbox ncurses scroll text layout ui user interface widget
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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