No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
yq has 4M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 4.1.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is built on top of argcomplete, pyyaml and tomlkit. It is used by 9 tracked packages, including truefoundry, tomlq and servicefoundry.
GitHub topics include yaml, jq and command-line.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
67
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,973,808
•
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
3,973,808
Stars
2,952
Stars per 1k downloads
0.74
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
121,463
Month daily avg
132,460
Momentum
-8.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Apache Software 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
3 days ago
Total releases
51
Releases/year
4.9
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
15
Monthly downloads
3,973,808
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
29
Issue Burden
7.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
17.6%
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
46.0K
macOS
260
Windows
132
Python Versions
3.12
39.0%
16.2K
3.10
24.8%
10.3K
3.11
19.2%
8.0K
3.13
9.8%
4.1K
3.9
7.1%
3.0K
Top Countries
1.
US
31.1K
US
2.
ES
3.7K
ES
3.
DE
2.2K
DE
4.
IE
2.2K
IE
5.
NL
1.7K
NL
6.
CA
1.4K
CA
7.
JP
558
JP
8.
IL
548
IL
9.
FR
448
FR
10.
BE
447
BE
Package Information
License
Apache Software License
First Release
February 28, 2016
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
4.1.1
Total Releases
51
Contributors
15
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Andrey Kislyuk
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh