PyPI Stats
Gallopsled

pwntools

CTF framework and exploit development library
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (Gallopsled/pwntools) with 3 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
14.6K
Week
89.2K
Month
364.5K
Stars
13.4K
Forks
1.8K
Issues
97
Version
4.15.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
87
Adoption
75
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
364,532
• 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
364,532
Stars
13,416
Stars per 1k downloads
36.80
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
12,749
Month daily avg
12,151
Momentum
+4.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=2.7
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
Mostly MIT, some GPL/BSD, see LICENSE-pwntools.txt
• 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
206 days ago
Total releases
122
Releases/year
10.4
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
283
Monthly downloads
364,532
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
78
 
Issue Burden
7.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
15.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
201d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 14.9K
Windows 764
macOS 179

Python Versions

3.13
52.3% 8.2K
3.12
32.4% 5.1K
3.10
5.6% 883
3.11
4.8% 755
3.14
4.8% 749

Top Countries

1. SG SG
6.1K
2. GB GB
3.2K
3. US US
3.2K
4. CN CN
663
5. ID ID
434
6. DE DE
365
7. HK HK
177
8. IN IN
128
9. FR FR
116
10. CA CA
111

Package Information

License
Mostly MIT, some GPL/BSD, see LICENSE-pwntools.txt
First Release
July 27, 2014
Last Release
6 months ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
4.15.0
Total Releases
122
Contributors
283
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Python Versions
2.7 3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
pwntools exploit ctf capture the flag binary wargame overflow stack heap defcon
Topics
ctf exploit python pwntools assembly ctf-framework shellcode rop pwnable defcon capture-the-flag wargame python2 python3 linux bsd shellcoding shellcode-development hacktoberfest
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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