No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
wordcloud has 4.6M monthly downloads and 11K GitHub stars. Version 1.9.6 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of matplotlib, numpy and pillow. It is used by 236 tracked packages, including ydata-profiling, querysource and fg-data-profiling.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
86
Adoption
100
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
166 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,629,875
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
4,629,875
Stars
10,543
Stars per 1k downloads
2.28
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
352,869
Month daily avg
154,329
Momentum
+128.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
166 days ago
Total releases
23
Releases/year
2.0
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
68
Monthly downloads
4,629,875
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
74
Issue Burden
10.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
2.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
43.1K
Windows
4.1K
macOS
748
Python Versions
3.11
33.8%
15.2K
3.12
30.3%
13.6K
3.10
24.3%
11.0K
3.13
8.4%
3.8K
3.9
3.1%
1.4K
Top Countries
1.
US
346.2K
US
2.
DK
82.3K
DK
3.
SE
14.7K
SE
4.
CN
1.8K
CN
5.
NL
1.5K
NL
6.
IE
1.4K
IE
7.
GB
1.3K
GB
8.
SG
1.3K
SG
9.
JP
1.3K
JP
10.
IN
894
IN
Dependencies
3
- matplotlib
- numpy >=1.19.3
- pillow
Used By
236
- ydata-profiling
- querysource
- fg-data-profiling
- tcrcloud
- autoviz
- matplotlib-set-diagrams
- dataprep
- utilities-nlp
- top2vec
- stackview
- thaieda
- lida
- contextualized-topic-models
- asronlp
- nlpaf
- langsc
- mkt-retv
- gpflib
- smitotext
- nonebot-plugin-wordcloud
- dhlab
- embedding-explorer
- fhnw-nlp-utils
- doc-curation
- pegasuspy
- pybibx
- arabica
- dashai
- nonebot-plugin-ai-groupmate
- matplotlibapi
- pyphyschemtools
- rtsvg
- latteslab
- reader-toolbox
- ghreport
- nlputilsbert
- poisson-topicmodels
- manta-topic-modelling
- ktmu
- poimage
- nlp-augmentation
- nlp-text-preprocessing
- chat-miner
- packagenlp
- data-science-toolkit
- nlp4ss
- maggic-wand
- pytextminer
- lcm-nlp
- pysentimentanalyzer
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
March 20, 2015
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
1.9.6
Total Releases
23
Contributors
68
Open PRs
32
Archived
No
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp37
cp38
cp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh