Monthly downloads
20.3M
Weekly downloads
4.7M
GitHub stars
471
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
>=3.6
Licence
MIT
Last Release
2 years ago
Author
Explosion
First Release
November 17, 2018
Total Releases
42
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
51
Adoption
70
Community
20
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
203 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,263,901
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
20,263,901
Stars
471
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
•
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
671,378
Month daily avg
675,463
Momentum
-0.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
•
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
MIT
•
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
867 days ago
Total releases
42
Releases/year
5.3
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
13
Monthly downloads
20,263,901
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
25
Issue Burden
10.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
54.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
664d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
411.7K
Windows
11.4K
macOS
5.6K
Python Versions
3.12
36.2%
138.0K
3.11
18.6%
70.9K
3.9
16.8%
63.9K
3.10
16.3%
62.1K
3.13
12.1%
46.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
327.6K
US
2.
IE
31.3K
IE
3.
DE
10.6K
DE
4.
GB
8.6K
GB
5.
NL
7.0K
NL
6.
SG
4.9K
SG
7.
IN
4.6K
IN
8.
FI
3.6K
FI
9.
CA
3.6K
CA
10.
KR
3.1K
KR
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
2
-
colorama
>=0.4.6
sys_platform == "win32" and python_version >= "3.7"
-
typing-extensions
<5.0.0,>=3.7.4.1
python_version < "3.8"
Used By
91
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Repository details
GitHub Topics
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh