Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 573 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
8
Popularity
84
Adoption
80
Community
70
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1699 days ago
Monthly downloads
16,785,119
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
Repository is archived on GitHub — no further commits expected.
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
16,785,119
Stars
9,258
Stars per 1k downloads
0.55
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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
570,442
Month daily avg
559,504
Momentum
+2.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
GPLv2
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
2273 days ago
Total releases
27
Releases/year
1.8
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
130
Monthly downloads
16,785,119
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
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Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
64
Issue Burden
9.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
573d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
355.3K
Windows
4.9K
macOS
927
Python Versions
3.12
30.9%
103.3K
3.11
30.7%
102.5K
3.10
28.4%
94.8K
3.9
6.1%
20.5K
3.8
3.9%
13.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
229.3K
US
2.
IN
45.0K
IN
3.
HK
22.0K
HK
4.
NL
11.9K
NL
5.
IE
9.5K
IE
6.
DE
9.3K
DE
7.
SG
7.4K
SG
8.
CA
6.9K
CA
9.
AU
4.2K
AU
10.
GB
3.5K
GB
Dependencies
0
1 optional dependencies
- python-levenshtein[speedup]
Package Information
License
GPLv2
First Release
July 24, 2011
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
4 years ago
Latest Version
0.18.0
Total Releases
27
Contributors
130
Open PRs
23
Archived
Yes
Author
Adam Cohen
Python Versions
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
Wheels
py2
py3
Topics
-
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh