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ws4py

WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy (ws4py 0.5.1)
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

ws4py has 505K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.6.0, first published in 2013.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2024.

It is used by 25 tracked packages, including signalfx, pysage3 and pylxd.

GitHub topics include ws4py and websockets.

Downloads
Day
11.3K
Week
94.7K
Month
504.7K
Stars
1.1K
Forks
285
Issues
59
Version
0.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
67
Adoption
57
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
98 days ago
Monthly downloads
504,669
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
504,669
Stars
1,128
Stars per 1k downloads
2.24
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
13,523
Month daily avg
16,822
Momentum
-19.6%
((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
564 days ago
Total releases
10
Releases/year
0.8
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
54
Monthly downloads
504,669
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
69
 
Issue Burden
52.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
465d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 7.0K
Windows 154
macOS 23

Python Versions

3.11
62.3% 4.1K
3.12
23.6% 1.6K
3.10
8.0% 525
3.13
3.8% 250
3.14
2.3% 154

Top Countries

1. US US
5.1K
2. IE IE
666
3. SG SG
153
4. DE DE
150
5. CN CN
149
6. GB GB
139
7. HK HK
114
8. CA CA
73
9. BE BE
70
10. IN IN
55
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD
First Release
September 12, 2013
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.6.0
Total Releases
10
Contributors
54
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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