PyRank
python-websockets

websockets

Library for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python
PyPI GitHub Verified repo
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

websockets has 433.9M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 16.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is used by 5,633 tracked packages, including google-genai, langsmith and langgraph-sdk.

GitHub topics include websocket, websockets and websocket-client.

Downloads
Day
15.2M
Week
104.5M
Month
433.9M
Stars
5.7K
Forks
599
Issues
17
Version
16.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
80
Adoption
80
Community
65
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
433,864,910
• 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
433,864,910
Stars
5,698
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
14,924,849
Month daily avg
14,462,164
Momentum
+3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
177 days ago
Total releases
47
Releases/year
3.7
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
78
Monthly downloads
433,864,910
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
63
 
Issue Burden
3.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
169d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 9.7M
Windows 295.5K
macOS 145.2K

Python Versions

3.12
49.2% 4.9M
3.11
19.6% 1.9M
3.13
16.4% 1.6M
3.10
8.2% 807.0K
3.14
6.7% 659.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
7.6M
2. SG SG
916.0K
3. DE DE
238.9K
4. GB GB
205.1K
5. IN IN
191.3K
6. NL NL
183.6K
7. JP JP
133.7K
8. IE IE
95.1K
9. DK DK
85.6K
10. FR FR
73.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
November 14, 2013
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
16.0
Total Releases
47
Contributors
78
Open PRs
9
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp37 py33
Keywords
WebSocket
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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