No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
xattr has 1.9M monthly downloads and 219 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2005.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Oct 2025.
It is built on top of cffi. It is used by 58 tracked packages, including poetry, multi-storage-client and conda-lock.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
49
Adoption
90
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
266 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,874,900
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
1,874,900
Stars
219
Stars per 1k downloads
0.12
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
72,197
Month daily avg
62,497
Momentum
+15.5%
((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
266 days ago
Total releases
32
Releases/year
1.6
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
27
Monthly downloads
1,874,900
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
50
Issue Burden
9.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
62.8%
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
43.5K
macOS
17.0K
Windows
13
Python Versions
3.10
39.2%
23.1K
3.12
19.1%
11.3K
3.11
16.3%
9.6K
3.13
14.3%
8.4K
3.14
11.0%
6.5K
Top Countries
1.
US
48.7K
US
2.
SG
4.1K
SG
3.
FR
2.8K
FR
4.
HU
975
HU
5.
DE
786
DE
6.
IE
759
IE
7.
IN
597
IN
8.
CA
497
CA
9.
NL
286
NL
10.
GB
237
GB
Used By
58
- poetry
- multi-storage-client
- conda-lock
- dirac
- osxmetadata
- buvis-gems
- oaknut-file
- otpme
- dfvfs
- pifpaf
- nucleus-mcp
- rhdndat
- swift
- plaso
- maestral
- backupmaster
- cloud-autopkg-runner
- grr-response-client
- ofrak
- buvis-pybase
- rms-pdslogger
- ecss-poetry
- dfimagetools
- mines-data-engineering
- fglatch
- macos-tags
- compiloor
- crystal-web
- mac-cleanup
- mrspuff
- dbxignore
- cerebraai
- lawwenda
- distill-trainer
- t4
- quera
- kvcdl
- ckanutils
- ckanny
- b1ddi
- xrdsum
- lolaml
- trash101
- openfund-py
- osxcollector
- dns-traffic-analysis
- aptos-verify
- terminal-buddy
- calendruparser
- datemangler
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
December 8, 2005
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
1.3.0
Total Releases
32
Contributors
27
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
cp27
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
pp240
pp254
pp310
pp324
pp3510
pp352
pp37
pp38
pp39
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh