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vadersentiment

VADER Sentiment Analysis. VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner) is a lexicon and rule-based sentiment analysis tool that is specifically attuned to sentiments expressed in social media, and works well on texts from other domains.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

vadersentiment has 985K monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 3.3.2, first published in 2014.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2020.

It is used by 82 tracked packages, including uipath-runtime, superlocalmemory and octobot.

Downloads
Day
44.9K
Week
239.6K
Month
985.5K
Stars
5.0K
Forks
1.1K
Issues
45
Version
3.3.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
81
Adoption
79
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
126 days ago
Monthly downloads
985,459
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
985,459
Stars
5,022
Stars per 1k downloads
5.10
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
34,233
Month daily avg
32,849
Momentum
+4.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
MIT 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
2236 days ago
Total releases
14
Releases/year
1.2
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
10
Monthly downloads
985,459
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
59
 
Issue Burden
9.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
0.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2110d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 37.4K
Windows 838
macOS 370

Python Versions

3.14
44.0% 16.6K
3.12
23.7% 8.9K
3.11
18.8% 7.1K
3.13
8.9% 3.3K
3.10
4.5% 1.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
30.2K
2. IE IE
4.0K
3. NL NL
1.4K
4. IN IN
651
5. SG SG
511
6. GB GB
328
7. CA CA
250
8. DE DE
199
9. AU AU
106
10. CN CN
78

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
November 17, 2014
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
3.3.2
Total Releases
14
Contributors
10
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Author
C.J. Hutto
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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