PyPI Stats
GlobalFishingWatch

gfw-api-python-client

Python package for accessing data from Global Fishing Watch APIs
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
48
Week
189
Month
940
Stars
20
Forks
3
Issues
1
Version
1.4.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
45
Popularity
24
Adoption
29
Community
20
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
113 days ago
Monthly downloads
940
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
940
Stars
20
Stars per 1k downloads
21.28
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
27
Month daily avg
31
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
>=3.11
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 License 2.0
• 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
113 days ago
Total releases
8
Releases/year
7.0
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
9
Monthly downloads
940
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
32
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
300.0%
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

Windows 6
Linux 4
macOS 2

Python Versions

3.12
41.7% 5
3.13
33.3% 4
3.11
16.7% 2
3.14
8.3% 1

Top Countries

1. CA CA
3
2. BE BE
2
3. FR FR
2
4. GB GB
2
5. JP JP
2
6. US US
2

Dependencies

9
35 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Package Information

License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
March 14, 2025
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
1.4.0
Total Releases
8
Contributors
9
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
global fishing watch gfw apis api client fishing data satellite data vessel data marine data geospatial data ocean monitoring marine research marine conservation environmental research ocean sustainability ais vms
Topics
api-wrapper globalfishingwatch mapping python
Tracking Since
January 14, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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