No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
yara-x has 315K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.19.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2024.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is used by 6 tracked packages, including cisco-ai-skill-scanner, maco-extractor and maco.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
64
Adoption
64
Community
65
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1 days ago
Monthly downloads
314,670
•
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
314,670
Stars
1,205
Stars per 1k downloads
3.83
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
10,338
Month daily avg
10,489
Momentum
-1.4%
((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
BSD License
•
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
13 days ago
Total releases
40
Releases/year
18.3
•
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
65
Monthly downloads
314,670
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
60
Issue Burden
22.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
46.8%
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
5.5K
Windows
244
macOS
135
Python Versions
3.12
45.8%
2.7K
3.11
23.0%
1.3K
3.14
19.6%
1.1K
3.13
7.8%
457
3.10
3.8%
220
Top Countries
1.
US
3.7K
US
2.
CA
470
CA
3.
DE
384
DE
4.
SG
281
SG
5.
AU
261
AU
6.
FI
186
FI
7.
FR
180
FR
8.
CN
88
CN
9.
PL
59
PL
10.
JP
42
JP
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Package Information
License
BSD License
First Release
April 29, 2024
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
Yesterday
Latest Version
1.19.0
Total Releases
40
Contributors
65
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Wheels
cp38
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh