Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
72
Adoption
36
Community
65
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
12 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,796
•
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
4,796
Stars
2,547
Stars per 1k downloads
531.07
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
127
Month daily avg
160
Momentum
—
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Momentum not reported for packages with < 5,000 monthly downloads — percentages are noisy at low volume.
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
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
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
27 days ago
Total releases
29
Releases/year
2.0
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
73
Monthly downloads
4,796
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
80
Issue Burden
42.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
44.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
23.9%
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
3
Python Versions
3.7
66.7%
2
3.10
33.3%
1
Top Countries
1.
US
2
US
2.
CA
1
CA
3.
HK
1
HK
4.
SG
1
SG
Dependencies
22
- appdirs
- appnope
- evdev
- hidapi
- packaging
- pkginfo
- plover-stroke
- plyer
- psutil
- pygments
- pyobjc-core
- pyobjc-framework-cocoa
- pyobjc-framework-quartz
- pyserial
- python-xlib
- readme-renderer
- requests-cache
- requests-futures
- rtf-tokenize
- setuptools
- wcwidth
- xkbcommon <1.1
1 optional dependencies
- pyside6-essentials[gui-qt]
Package Information
License
GNU General Public License v2 or later (GPLv2+)
First Release
December 28, 2011
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
5.3.0
Total Releases
29
Contributors
73
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Joshua Harlan Lifton
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Topics
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh