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validate-email

Validate_email verify if an email address is valid and really exists
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

validate-email has 1.2M monthly downloads and 591 GitHub stars. Version 1.0, first published in 2012.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a copyleft license, last released in Jan 2016.

It is used by 40 tracked packages, including protoc-gen-validate, crossbar and codegrade.

Downloads
Day
18.3K
Week
141.4K
Month
1.2M
Stars
591
Forks
235
Issues
80
Version
1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
62
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4000 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,235,603
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
1,235,603
Stars
591
Stars per 1k downloads
0.48
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
20,200
Month daily avg
41,187
Momentum
-51.0%
((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
LGPL
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
3819 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
0.3
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
1,235,603
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
63
 
Issue Burden
135.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 9.5K
Windows 357
macOS 112

Python Versions

3.12
40.9% 3.2K
3.11
30.5% 2.4K
3.9
13.5% 1.1K
3.10
10.4% 826
3.13
4.8% 380

Top Countries

1. US US
7.2K
2. DE DE
1.2K
3. CA CA
303
4. SG SG
207
5. IE IE
157
6. FI FI
138
7. IN IN
131
8. AU AU
103
9. NL NL
94
10. FR FR
90

Package Information

License
LGPL
First Release
April 22, 2012
Last Release
10 years ago
Last Commit
10 years ago
Latest Version
1.0
Total Releases
4
Contributors
10
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Author
Syrus Akbary
Keywords
email validation verification mx verify
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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