No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
waybackpy has 5M monthly downloads and 592 GitHub stars. Version 3.0.6 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2020.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2022.
It is used by 12 tracked packages, including bibtex-bibble, infradetective and bolster.
GitHub topics include internet-archive, wayback-machine and internet-archiving.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
54
Adoption
100
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1328 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,950,666
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
4,950,666
Stars
592
Stars per 1k downloads
0.12
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
311,682
Month daily avg
165,022
Momentum
+88.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
1574 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
5.7
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
10
Monthly downloads
4,950,666
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
44
Issue Burden
32.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
13.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
246d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
297.7K
Windows
20
macOS
13
Python Versions
3.12
99.6%
296.4K
3.14
0.2%
513
3.11
0.1%
321
3.13
0.1%
261
3.10
0.0%
109
Top Countries
1.
US
297.2K
US
2.
SG
179
SG
3.
GB
137
GB
4.
IN
42
IN
5.
NL
27
NL
6.
DE
14
DE
7.
IE
12
IE
8.
CN
9
CN
9.
BD
6
BD
10.
HK
6
HK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
May 4, 2020
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
3.0.6
Total Releases
35
Contributors
10
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Akash Mahanty
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh