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yamale

A schema and validator for YAML.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

yamale has 4.7M monthly downloads and 765 GitHub stars. Version 6.1.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2014.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is built on top of pyyaml. It is used by 60 tracked packages, including xclim, aws-service-catalog-puppet and python-fx.

GitHub topics include yaml and schema.

Downloads
Day
162.9K
Week
1.1M
Month
4.7M
Stars
765
Forks
100
Issues
49
Version
6.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
60
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
223 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,674,752
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
4,674,752
Stars
765
Stars per 1k downloads
0.16
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
160,653
Month daily avg
155,825
Momentum
+3.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
228 days ago
Total releases
50
Releases/year
4.2
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
57
Monthly downloads
4,674,752
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
63
 
Issue Burden
64.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
57.0%
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 70.1K
Windows 141
macOS 141

Python Versions

3.12
32.2% 20.7K
3.13
29.7% 19.1K
3.10
19.2% 12.3K
3.9
13.0% 8.4K
3.11
5.9% 3.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
60.7K
2. NL NL
5.5K
3. GB GB
1.9K
4. DE DE
860
5. AU AU
303
6. IE IE
270
7. CH CH
176
8. SG SG
146
9. CN CN
85
10. FR FR
77
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 30, 2014
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
6.1.0
Total Releases
50
Contributors
57
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Author
Bo Lopker
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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