Package Health Score

83 / 100

security
No known security issues
popularity
Key ecosystem project
maintenance
Sustainable
community
Sustainable

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Popularity

Key ecosystem project

GitHub Stars: 2.2K
Forks: 259
Contributors: 50

Direct Usage Popularity

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package chardet, we found that it has been starred 2,199 times.

Security

No known security issues

Security and license risk for latest version

Release Date: Aug 1, 2023
Direct Vulnerabilities: 0
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Indirect Vulnerabilities: 0
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License

LGPL-2.1

Non-Permissive License

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Security Policy

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Maintenance

Sustainable

Commit Frequency

Open Issues: 59
Open PR: 8
Last Release: 1 year ago
Last Commit: 5 months ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of chardet based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

An important project maintenance signal to consider for chardet is that it hasn't seen any new versions released to PyPI in the past 12 months, and could be considered as a discontinued project, or that which receives low attention from its maintainers.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Sustainable

Readme: Yes
Contributing.md: No
Code of Conduct: No
Contributors: 50
Funding: No

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Package

Python Versions Compatibility: >=3.7

Age: 18 years
Latest Release: 1 year ago
Dependencies: N/A
Versions: 15
Maintainers: 5
Wheels: OS Independent

Readme

Chardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector

License

Detects

ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16 (2 variants), UTF-32 (4 variants)
Big5, GB2312, EUC-TW, HZ-GB-2312, ISO-2022-CN (Traditional and Simplified Chinese)
EUC-JP, SHIFT_JIS, CP932, ISO-2022-JP (Japanese)
EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR, Johab (Korean)
KOI8-R, MacCyrillic, IBM855, IBM866, ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Cyrillic)
ISO-8859-5, windows-1251 (Bulgarian)
ISO-8859-1, windows-1252, MacRoman (Western European languages)
ISO-8859-7, windows-1253 (Greek)
ISO-8859-8, windows-1255 (Visual and Logical Hebrew)
TIS-620 (Thai)

Note

Our ISO-8859-2 and windows-1250 (Hungarian) probers have been temporarily disabled until we can retrain the models.

Requires Python 3.7+.

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install chardet

Documentation

For users, docs are now available at .

Command-line Tool

chardet comes with a command-line script which reports on the encodings of one or more files:

% chardetect somefile someotherfile
somefile: windows-1252 with confidence 0.5
someotherfile: ascii with confidence 1.0

About

This is a continuation of Mark Pilgrim's excellent original chardet port from C, and Ian Cordasco's charade Python 3-compatible fork.

maintainer
Dan Blanchard

FAQs

What is chardet?

Universal encoding detector for Python 3. Visit Snyk Advisor to see a full health score report for chardet, including popularity, security, maintenance & community analysis.

Is chardet popular?

The python package chardet receives a total of 19,356,820 weekly downloads. As such, chardet popularity was classified as a key ecosystem project. Visit the popularity section on Snyk Advisor to see the full health analysis.

Is chardet well maintained?

We found indications that chardet maintenance is sustainable demonstrating some project activity. We saw a total of 50 open source contributors collaborating on the project. See the full package health analysis to learn more about the package maintenance status.

Is chardet safe to use?

The python package chardet was scanned for known vulnerabilities and missing license, and no issues were found. Thus the package was deemed as safe to use. See the full health analysis review.

Last updated on 21 December-2024, at 01:04 (UTC).

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Chardet: The Universal Character Encoding Detector

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