No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
websockify has 355K monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 0.13.0, first published in 2013.
It is stably maintained under a copyleft license, last released in May 2025.
It is built on top of jwcrypto, numpy and redis. It is used by 14 tracked packages, including dracs, pebble-tool and novnc.
GitHub topics include websockify, websockets and novnc.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 362 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
80
Adoption
95
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
43 days ago
Monthly downloads
354,799
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
354,799
Stars
4,418
Stars per 1k downloads
12.45
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
14,693
Month daily avg
11,827
Momentum
+24.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
LGPLv3
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
406 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
1.0
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
83
Monthly downloads
354,799
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
72
Issue Burden
7.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
9.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
362d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
7.9K
Windows
578
macOS
90
Python Versions
3.12
75.3%
6.3K
3.10
12.8%
1.1K
3.13
5.8%
481
3.11
4.3%
356
3.14
1.9%
157
Top Countries
1.
US
7.4K
US
2.
DE
128
DE
3.
CA
111
CA
4.
CN
89
CN
5.
FR
81
FR
6.
AU
79
AU
7.
SG
78
SG
8.
TW
76
TW
9.
NL
73
NL
10.
IN
68
IN
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
LGPLv3
First Release
January 15, 2013
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.13.0
Total Releases
13
Contributors
83
Open PRs
12
Archived
No
Author
Joel Martin
Python Versions
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh