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vulture

Find dead Python code
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

vulture has 8.7M monthly downloads and 5K GitHub stars. Version 2.16 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2012.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of tomli. It is used by 65 tracked packages, including demisto-sdk, omniopt2 and pyaud-plugins.

GitHub topics include dead-code-removal.

Downloads
Day
267.7K
Week
1.9M
Month
8.7M
Stars
4.7K
Forks
191
Issues
45
Version
2.16

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
74
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
67 days ago
Monthly downloads
8,741,762
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
8,741,762
Stars
4,678
Stars per 1k downloads
0.54
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
275,183
Month daily avg
291,392
Momentum
-5.6%
((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
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
103 days ago
Total releases
56
Releases/year
3.9
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
42
Monthly downloads
8,741,762
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
52
 
Issue Burden
9.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.0%
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 150.0K
macOS 2.4K
Windows 2.1K

Python Versions

3.12
48.1% 71.8K
3.13
16.7% 24.9K
3.14
15.9% 23.7K
3.11
14.5% 21.7K
3.10
4.8% 7.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
129.6K
2. ES ES
8.0K
3. DE DE
3.8K
4. NL NL
2.5K
5. IE IE
1.8K
6. KR KR
1.5K
7. SG SG
1.0K
8. GB GB
640
9. FR FR
632
10. JP JP
549
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
March 17, 2012
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2.16
Total Releases
56
Contributors
42
Open PRs
17
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
dead code removal
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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