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yaspin

A lightweight terminal spinner for Python 🎁
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

yaspin has 5.6M monthly downloads and 912 GitHub stars. Version 3.4.0 supports Python <4.0,>=3.10, first published in 2017.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2025.

It is built on top of termcolor. It is used by 294 tracked packages, including dagster-dg-core, tecton and open-interpreter.

GitHub topics include spinner, terminal and cli-utilities.

Downloads
Day
175.8K
Week
1.3M
Month
5.6M
Stars
912
Forks
44
Issues
8
Version
3.4.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
57
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
145 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,617,383
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
5,617,383
Stars
912
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
187,076
Month daily avg
187,246
Momentum
-0.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<4.0,>=3.10
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
213 days ago
Total releases
44
Releases/year
5.1
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
21
Monthly downloads
5,617,383
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
39
 
Issue Burden
8.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
67d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 91.3K
Windows 1.7K
macOS 396

Python Versions

3.7
40.0% 33.2K
3.11
19.1% 15.9K
3.13
16.1% 13.4K
3.12
14.6% 12.1K
3.9
10.2% 8.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
75.5K
2. IE IE
11.8K
3. IT IT
2.9K
4. SG SG
936
5. CN CN
368
6. DE DE
317
7. GB GB
296
8. NL NL
275
9. IN IN
199
10. ES ES
183
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
November 2, 2017
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
3.4.0
Total Releases
44
Contributors
21
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Pavlo Dmytrenko
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
spinner console terminal loader indicator
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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