No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
watchgod has 910K monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 0.8.2 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2017.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2022.
It is used by 27 tracked packages, including py4web, robusta-api and appyter.
GitHub topics include asyncio, filesystem and notify.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1534 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
69
Adoption
69
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
23 days ago
Monthly downloads
910,226
•
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
910,226
Stars
2,515
Stars per 1k downloads
2.76
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
27,687
Month daily avg
30,341
Momentum
-8.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
•
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
1557 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
1.7
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
55
Monthly downloads
910,226
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
51
Issue Burden
15.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
39.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1534d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
16.4K
Windows
102
macOS
64
Python Versions
3.11
72.7%
11.3K
3.9
10.7%
1.7K
3.8
5.7%
884
3.10
5.6%
867
3.12
5.4%
843
Top Countries
1.
IE
10.2K
IE
2.
US
4.8K
US
3.
SG
1.2K
SG
4.
DE
186
DE
5.
IN
47
IN
6.
JP
45
JP
7.
RU
44
RU
8.
HK
30
HK
9.
AU
26
AU
10.
BR
25
BR
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
27
- py4web
- robusta-api
- appyter
- antipetros-discordbot
- dokku-api
- genropy
- opsdroid
- gnosys-strata
- solace
- hmd-cli-librarian-sync-watcher
- strata-mcp
- nbplugins-watch
- madam-mam
- burgeon
- nvn
- coghotswap
- sanic-devtools
- pyforever
- sasstastic
- skip-ssg
- pyngsild
- tym
- eleran
- incremental-progress
- vkbottle-sync
- databutton2
- tottle
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
October 17, 2017
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.8.2
Total Releases
15
Contributors
55
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Samuel Colvin
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py3
py35
py36
py37
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh