PyPI Stats
cowrie

cowrie

Cowrie SSH/Telnet Honeypot https://docs.cowrie.org/
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
28
Week
184
Month
742
Stars
6.3K
Forks
1.0K
Issues
46
Version
2.9.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
83
Adoption
28
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
742
• 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
742
Stars
6,331
Stars per 1k downloads
8532.35
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
Needs at least 1,000 monthly downloads to classify popularity.
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
26
Month daily avg
25
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
!=3.0.*,!=3.1.*,!=3.2.*,!=3.3.*,!=3.4.*,!=3.5.*,!=3.6.*,!=3.7.*,!=3.8.*,!=3.9.*,<4,>=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-3-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
159 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
6.9
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
150
Monthly downloads
742
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
74
 
Issue Burden
7.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.2
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
155d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 17

Python Versions

3.12
44.4% 8
3.13
38.9% 7
3.10
16.7% 3

Top Countries

1. RU RU
8
2. DE DE
4
3. IN IN
3
4. BJ BJ
2
5. FR FR
2
6. LB LB
2
7. LK LK
2
8. NL NL
2
9. BR BR
1
10. CA CA
1

Dependencies

12
35 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 7, 2025
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
2.9.0
Total Releases
4
Contributors
150
Open PRs
11
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Keywords
ssh telnet honeypot
Topics
cowrie honeypot ssh telnet security kippo cowrie-ssh telnet-honeypot sftp scp attacker threat-analysis threat-sharing threatintel decoy deception
Tracking Since
January 14, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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