PyPI Stats
behave

behave

BDD, Python style.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (behave/behave) with 3 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
211.8K
Week
1.1M
Month
4.8M
Stars
3.5K
Forks
660
Issues
52
Version
1.3.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
77
Adoption
70
Community
70
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,810,330
• 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
4,810,330
Stars
3,478
Stars per 1k downloads
0.72
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
150,816
Month daily avg
160,344
Momentum
-5.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,>=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-2-Clause
• 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
244 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.1
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
87
Monthly downloads
4,810,330
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
90
 
Issue Burden
15.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
241d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 62.6K
Windows 2.4K
macOS 1.1K

Python Versions

3.12
33.0% 19.4K
3.13
22.7% 13.4K
3.11
21.5% 12.7K
3.10
18.5% 10.9K
3.14
4.4% 2.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
47.3K
2. IE IE
5.8K
3. GB GB
3.3K
4. DE DE
2.3K
5. NL NL
1.6K
6. TW TW
940
7. SG SG
920
8. KR KR
645
9. FR FR
408
10. AU AU
292

Dependencies

15
33 optional dependencies

Used By

103
View all 103 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
December 5, 2011
Last Release
8 months ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
1.3.3
Total Releases
16
Contributors
87
Open PRs
22
Archived
No
Author
Benno Rice, Richard Jones
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
BDD behavior-driven-development bdd-framework behave gherkin cucumber-like
Topics
bdd bdd-framework behave behavior-driven-development gherkin cucumber-like python python3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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