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pycbc

Core package to analyze gravitational-wave data, find signals, and study their parameters. This package was used in the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GW150914), and is used in the ongoing analysis of LIGO/Virgo data.
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Downloads
Day
839
Week
10.4K
Month
56.2K
Stars
381
Forks
380
Issues
185
Version
2.11.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
61
Adoption
47
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
56,190
• 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
56,190
Stars
381
Stars per 1k downloads
6.78
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
1,484
Month daily avg
1,873
Momentum
-20.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
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
GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
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
21 days ago
Total releases
153
Releases/year
14.0
• 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
164
Monthly downloads
56,190
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
91
 
Issue Burden
485.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
31.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
43.2%
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 447
Windows 40
macOS 16

Python Versions

3.12
70.3% 332
3.9
8.5% 40
3.11
8.3% 39
3.10
6.8% 32
3.13
6.1% 29

Top Countries

1. CN CN
1.8K
2. US US
339
3. SG SG
52
4. DE DE
39
5. TW TW
30
6. MX MX
24
7. NL NL
20
8. AU AU
8
9. IT IT
8
10. IN IN
4

Dependencies

20
3 optional dependencies

Used By

22
View all 22 dependents

Package Information

License
GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3)
First Release
June 9, 2015
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
2.11.0
Total Releases
153
Contributors
164
Open PRs
55
Archived
No
Author
The PyCBC team
Python Versions
3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
cp311 cp312 cp313
Keywords
ligo physics gravity signal processing gravitational waves
Topics
astronomy physics gravity ligo gravitational-waves pycbc analysis python black-hole neutron-star gwastro virgo signal-processing open-science cosmic-explorer einstein-telescope lisa
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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