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testcontainers

testcontainers

Testcontainers is a Python library that providing a friendly API to run Docker container. It is designed to create runtime environment to use during your automatic tests.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (testcontainers/testcontainers-python) with 20 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
940.5K
Week
5.1M
Month
20.9M
Stars
2.2K
Forks
372
Issues
127
Version
4.15.0rc2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
72
Adoption
80
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
20,910,627
• 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
20,910,627
Stars
2,208
Stars per 1k downloads
0.11
• 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
725,825
Month daily avg
697,021
Momentum
+4.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
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
Apache-2.0
• 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
6 days ago
Total releases
69
Releases/year
7.1
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
176
Monthly downloads
20,910,627
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
81
 
Issue Burden
57.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.3%
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 392.8K
macOS 2.7K
Windows 1.4K

Python Versions

3.12
30.6% 112.5K
3.13
22.6% 82.9K
3.10
21.2% 77.9K
3.11
16.2% 59.5K
3.14
9.3% 34.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
359.1K
2. DE DE
6.7K
3. FR FR
4.9K
4. NL NL
4.4K
5. IE IE
3.7K
6. GB GB
3.1K
7. JP JP
2.6K
8. BE BE
2.6K
9. CA CA
1.0K
10. SE SE
979

Dependencies

5
45 optional dependencies

Used By

53
View all 53 dependents

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
August 21, 2016
Last Release
6 days ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
4.15.0rc2
Total Releases
69
Contributors
176
Open PRs
43
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
docker logging test automation testing
Topics
python python3 testing testcontainers selenium database
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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