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RhetTbull

osxmetadata

Python package to read and write various MacOS extended attribute metadata such as tags/keywords and Finder comments from files. Includes CLI tool for reading/writing metadata.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
381
Week
3.0K
Month
14.8K
Stars
154
Forks
4
Issues
33
Version
1.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
37
Adoption
41
Community
10
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
79 days ago
Monthly downloads
14,776
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
14,776
Stars
154
Stars per 1k downloads
10.42
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
426
Month daily avg
493
Momentum
-13.5%
((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
MIT
• 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
79 days ago
Total releases
65
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
2
Monthly downloads
14,776
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
23
 
Issue Burden
214.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
26.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
50.0%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

macOS 410
Linux 1
Windows 1

Python Versions

3.14
30.5% 125
3.13
28.5% 117
3.12
21.2% 87
3.9
14.1% 58
3.11
5.6% 23

Top Countries

1. US US
162
2. JP JP
29
3. DE DE
27
4. GB GB
21
5. KR KR
16
6. FR FR
14
7. CA CA
13
8. AU AU
11
9. ES ES
11
10. IT IT
10

Dependencies

13
13 optional dependencies

Used By

2

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
December 29, 2018
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
1.4.1
Total Releases
65
Contributors
2
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Wheels
py3
Keywords
cli extended_attributes mac macos metadata osx spotlight tags
Topics
python command-line-tool command-line cli metadata extended-attributes macos mac
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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