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setuptools

Official project repository for the Setuptools build system
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (pypa/setuptools) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
48.8M
Week
285.3M
Month
1.3B
Stars
2.8K
Forks
1.4K
Issues
598
Version
82.0.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
78
Adoption
70
Community
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
23 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,332,538,657
• 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
1,332,538,657
Stars
2,828
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
40,760,815
Month daily avg
44,417,955
Momentum
-8.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
58 days ago
Total releases
622
Releases/year
31.1
• 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
578
Monthly downloads
1,332,538,657
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
100
 
Issue Burden
211.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
101.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
42.0%
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 25.5M
Windows 830.0K
macOS 370.7K

Python Versions

3.12
31.3% 7.3M
3.11
22.9% 5.4M
3.10
20.1% 4.7M
3.13
14.0% 3.3M
3.9
11.8% 2.8M

Top Countries

1. US US
18.6M
2. SG SG
1.2M
3. DE DE
868.9K
4. IE IE
748.3K
5. IN IN
652.4K
6. NL NL
534.7K
7. CN CN
464.1K
8. GB GB
392.0K
9. FR FR
390.1K
10. HK HK
306.1K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 12, 2006
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
3 weeks ago
Latest Version
82.0.1
Total Releases
622
Contributors
578
Open PRs
46
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3 py33
Keywords
CPAN PyPI distutils eggs package management
Topics
-
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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