PyPI Stats
cgohlke

imagecodecs

Image transformation, compression, and decompression codecs.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (cgohlke/imagecodecs) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
43.3K
Week
264.5K
Month
1.2M
Stars
178
Forks
30
Issues
2
Version
2026.3.6

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
46
Adoption
70
Community
10
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
60 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,233,180
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
1,233,180
Stars
178
Stars per 1k downloads
0.14
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
37,784
Month daily avg
41,106
Momentum
-8.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
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
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
60 days ago
Total releases
67
Releases/year
8.8
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
1
Monthly downloads
1,233,180
• 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
22
 
Issue Burden
11.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.3%
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

Linux 16.2K
Windows 822
macOS 708

Python Versions

3.12
56.2% 9.6K
3.11
20.0% 3.4K
3.10
16.5% 2.8K
3.13
4.6% 782
3.14
2.7% 459

Top Countries

1. US US
14.2K
2. SG SG
590
3. RU RU
523
4. TW TW
363
5. DE DE
304
6. NL NL
264
7. CN CN
223
8. GB GB
206
9. CH CH
149
10. HK HK
127

Dependencies

1
21 optional dependencies

Used By

257
View all 257 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
October 11, 2018
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
2026.3.6
Total Releases
67
Contributors
1
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Christoph Gohlke
Python Versions
3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39
Topics
python image tiff jpeg jpeg2000 webp lzw packbits lz4 lzma lzf zfp lerc avif jpeg-ls zarr ultrahdr jpeg-xl jpeg-xr jpeg-xs
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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