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bifacial-radiance

Toolkit for working with RADIANCE for the ray-trace modeling of Bifacial Photovoltaics
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
88
Week
247
Month
1.3K
Stars
103
Forks
57
Issues
84
Version
0.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
45
Adoption
31
Community
60
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
34 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,278
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
1,278
Stars
103
Stars per 1k downloads
80.59
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
35
Month daily avg
43
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
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
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
104 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
2.5
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
17
Monthly downloads
1,278
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
56
 
Issue Burden
815.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
29.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
70d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 2

Python Versions

2.7
50.0% 1
3.7
50.0% 1

Top Countries

1. CN CN
3
2. US US
2
3. CA CA
1

Dependencies

9
11 optional dependencies

Used By

2

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
July 30, 2019
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
0.5.1
Total Releases
17
Contributors
17
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
bifacial radiance photovoltaics pv ray tracing
Topics
radiance bifacial photovoltaics renewable-energy renewables gui
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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