PyPI Stats
imageio

imageio

Python library for reading and writing image data
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
1.5M
Week
9.0M
Month
46.9M
Stars
1.7K
Forks
347
Issues
110
Version
2.37.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
60
Popularity
70
Adoption
60
Community
90
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
24 days ago
Monthly downloads
46,928,708
• 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
46,928,708
Stars
1,697
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
• 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
1,286,030
Month daily avg
1,564,290
Momentum
-17.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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-2-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
58 days ago
Total releases
2
Releases/year
0.1
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
116
Monthly downloads
46,928,708
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
75
 
Issue Burden
64.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.4%
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 726.0K
Windows 78.3K
macOS 25.8K

Python Versions

3.12
36.0% 260.4K
3.6
20.4% 147.8K
3.11
18.9% 136.8K
3.10
17.6% 127.3K
3.13
7.2% 51.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
633.6K
2. HK HK
28.2K
3. SG SG
13.2K
4. AU AU
12.8K
5. IN IN
12.4K
6. CN CN
12.3K
7. NL NL
11.9K
8. DE DE
11.7K
9. FI FI
11.0K
10. JP JP
8.0K

Dependencies

2
54 optional dependencies

Used By

1309
View all 1309 dependents

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
July 15, 2012
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.37.3
Total Releases
2
Contributors
116
Open PRs
15
Archived
No
Author
ImageIO contributors
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp26 cp27 cp33 cp34 cp35 py2 py3
Keywords
image video imread imwrite io animation ffmpeg image processing numpy format conversion scientific imaging medical imaging volumetric video encoding multimedia gif tiff png jpeg
Topics
python imageio animated-gif video webcam-capture scientific-formats dicom
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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