PyPI Stats
saudadez21

novel-downloader

A command-line tool for downloading Chinese web novels from Qidian and similar platforms.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
26
Week
173
Month
1.4K
Stars
118
Forks
19
Issues
10
Version
3.1.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
42
Adoption
31
Community
10
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
155 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,351
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
1,351
Stars
118
Stars per 1k downloads
87.34
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
25
Month daily avg
45
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
MIT License
• 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
161 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
29.5
• 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
1,351
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
27
 
Issue Burden
84.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
25.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.3%
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

Windows 10
Linux 4
macOS 2

Python Versions

3.13
37.5% 6
3.14
37.5% 6
3.10
12.5% 2
3.11
12.5% 2

Top Countries

1. CN CN
9
2. US US
4
3. QA QA
2
4. RU RU
2
5. CA CA
1

Dependencies

6
58 optional dependencies

Used By

0
Not used by any tracked packages

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
May 12, 2025
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
5 months ago
Latest Version
3.1.1
Total Releases
29
Contributors
1
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
novel web novel qidian epub light novel crawler scraper ebook
Topics
biquge fiction qidian linovelib epub txt
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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