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pywinauto

pywinauto

Windows GUI Automation with Python (based on text properties)
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
46.1K
Week
277.3K
Month
1.2M
Stars
6.0K
Forks
776
Issues
507
Version
0.6.9

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
81
Adoption
80
Community
70
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
23 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,169,888
• 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
1,169,888
Stars
5,994
Stars per 1k downloads
5.12
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
39,608
Month daily avg
38,996
Momentum
+1.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD 3-clause
• 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
485 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
0.8
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
81
Monthly downloads
1,169,888
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
82
 
Issue Burden
84.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
7.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
461d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Windows 35.4K
Linux 2.4K
macOS 137

Python Versions

3.12
67.6% 25.1K
3.11
12.2% 4.5K
3.10
10.5% 3.9K
3.13
6.0% 2.2K
3.14
3.8% 1.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
30.2K
2. CA CA
1.1K
3. CN CN
873
4. BR BR
834
5. PL PL
808
6. TW TW
564
7. IN IN
311
8. NL NL
295
9. RO RO
244
10. HK HK
233

Package Information

License
BSD 3-clause
First Release
January 21, 2006
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.6.9
Total Releases
17
Contributors
81
Open PRs
33
Archived
No
Author
Mark Mc Mahon and Contributors
Python Versions
2.7 3.5 3.6 3.7
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
windows gui automation GuiAuto testing test desktop mouse keyboard
Topics
python automation ui-automation ui-automated-tests windows pywinauto linux gui user-interface testing-tools testing qa uiautomation python-library hooks windows-api win32api
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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