PyRank
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webencodings

Character encoding for the web.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

webencodings has 136.2M monthly downloads and 39 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.1, first published in 2012.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2017.

It is used by 297 tracked packages, including tinycss2, bleach and cssselect2.

Downloads
Day
4.2M
Week
30.3M
Month
136.2M
Stars
39
Forks
32
Issues
7
Version
0.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
20
Popularity
37
Adoption
70
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3173 days ago
Monthly downloads
136,200,748
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
136,200,748
Stars
39
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
4,325,070
Month daily avg
4,540,025
Momentum
-4.7%
((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
BSD
• 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
3379 days ago
Total releases
6
Releases/year
0.4
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
6
Monthly downloads
136,200,748
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
53
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
205d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2.7M
Windows 70.7K
macOS 33.6K

Python Versions

3.12
36.5% 894.8K
3.11
20.4% 499.3K
3.10
19.7% 481.7K
3.9
14.6% 358.1K
3.13
8.9% 217.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.1M
2. IE IE
108.6K
3. NL NL
74.5K
4. SG SG
68.3K
5. DE DE
67.1K
6. IN IN
35.8K
7. CA CA
32.4K
8. JP JP
31.0K
9. GB GB
26.2K
10. AU AU
25.5K

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
December 23, 2012
Last Release
9 years ago
Last Commit
8 years ago
Latest Version
0.5.1
Total Releases
6
Contributors
6
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Geoffrey Sneddon
Python Versions
2 2.6 2.7 3 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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