No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
xlrd has 83.2M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 2.0.2, first published in 2006.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2025.
It is used by 1,385 tracked packages, including openhands-aci, akshare and pyexcel-xls.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
73
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
387 days ago
Monthly downloads
83,183,309
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
83,183,309
Stars
2,206
Stars per 1k downloads
0.03
•
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
2,952,123
Month daily avg
2,772,777
Momentum
+6.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,>=2.7
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
•
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
387 days ago
Total releases
25
Releases/year
1.2
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
44
Monthly downloads
83,183,309
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
48
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.0%
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
2.0M
Windows
45.1K
macOS
16.5K
Python Versions
3.12
46.5%
867.0K
3.11
20.2%
375.9K
3.10
18.2%
338.4K
3.13
10.3%
191.9K
3.9
4.9%
90.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.5M
US
2.
IN
386.8K
IN
3.
NL
98.3K
NL
4.
DK
82.6K
DK
5.
SG
67.9K
SG
6.
IE
62.7K
IE
7.
JP
36.8K
JP
8.
DE
29.8K
DE
9.
GB
29.3K
GB
10.
HK
29.2K
HK
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
1385
- openhands-aci
- akshare
- pyexcel-xls
- open-webui
- xlutils
- rpaframework
- textract
- hdx-python-utilities
- dataflows-tabulator
- agate-excel
- csvkit
- openviking
- llama-index-readers-confluence
- pyats-contrib
- datasetsforecast
- gridstatus
- styleframe
- dtale
- openbb-us-eia
- python-csv
- orange3
- textract-py3
- django-adminactions
- rtdip-sdk
- open-terminal
- bamboolib
- etlplus
- pyxform
- asyncdb
- sdf
- querysource
- xltpl
- mrio-common-metadata
- flowtask
- chellow
- worker-automate-hub
- sharepoint-to-text
- research-os
- dipex
- strictdoc
- bw2io
- epubcheck
- warn-scraper
- aurapro-ui
- glue-core
- maven
- mindsdb
- autoviz
- allotropy
- local-deep-research
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
March 17, 2006
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
2.0.2
Total Releases
25
Contributors
44
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Chris Withers
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.6
3.7
3.8
3.9
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh