PyPI Stats
orsinium

textdistance

📐 Compute distance between sequences. 30+ algorithms, pure python implementation, common interface, optional external libs usage.
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Downloads
Day
89.2K
Week
527.7K
Month
2.2M
Stars
3.5K
Forks
258
Issues
0
Version
4.6.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
73
Adoption
80
Community
20
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
383 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,204,768
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
2,204,768
Stars
3,527
Stars per 1k downloads
1.60
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
75,392
Month daily avg
73,492
Momentum
+2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.5
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
659 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
3.1
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
15
Monthly downloads
2,204,768
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
28
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
5.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
276d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 43.0K
Windows 1.5K
macOS 525

Python Versions

3.11
42.1% 17.2K
3.12
26.7% 10.9K
3.10
18.8% 7.6K
3.7
6.3% 2.6K
3.13
6.1% 2.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
37.3K
2. IE IE
1.2K
3. KR KR
728
4. DE DE
708
5. NL NL
596
6. SG SG
559
7. FR FR
503
8. ES ES
486
9. BE BE
424
10. CN CN
382

Dependencies

0
74 optional dependencies

Used By

57
View all 57 dependents

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 5, 2017
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
4.6.3
Total Releases
28
Contributors
15
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
orsinium
Wheels
py3
Keywords
distance between text strings sequences iterators
Topics
distance algorithm python textdistance hamming-distance levenshtein-distance damerau-levenshtein damerau-levenshtein-distance algorithms distance-calculation jellyfish diff levenshtein
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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