explosion/spaCy

Maintenance

Active

Human commits, 30 days

1

Human commits, 90 days

13

Human commits, 365 days

81

Bot share of commits, 365 days

1%

Last commit

Sep 30, 2026 (14 days ago)

Last human commit

Sep 30, 2026 (14 days ago)

Authors, 90 days

4

Last release

Aug 24, 2026 (1 month ago)

Median PR merge time

14 days

Responsiveness: of 15 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

81 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

1

Contributors

388

Top committers

• honnibal: 83% of commits
• ines: 4% of commits
• etiennebonnafoux: 1% of commits
• i-yuki23: 1% of commits
• kvr06-ai: 1% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Jan 25, 2015 to Feb 4, 2015: about 624 more stars than usual, peak 238 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 20, 2015 to Aug 20, 2015: about 29 more stars than usual, peak 30 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 28, 2015 to Sep 28, 2015: about 33 more stars than usual, peak 35 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 15, 2016 to Feb 18, 2016: about 47 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• May 13, 2016 to May 17, 2016: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 19, 2016 to Oct 26, 2016: about 226 more stars than usual, peak 80 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 1, 2016 to Nov 2, 2016: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Mar 15, 2017 to Mar 16, 2017: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
• Nov 8, 2017 to Nov 17, 2017: about 878 more stars than usual, peak 505 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 14, 2019 to Sep 15, 2019: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 41 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Feb 1, 2021 to Feb 9, 2021: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 462 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Mar 8, 2022 to Mar 11, 2022: about 261 more stars than usual, peak 123 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Oct 27, 2024 to Oct 29, 2024: about 61 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
• Aug 26, 2025 to Aug 28, 2025: about 112 more stars than usual, peak 54 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post.

• 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

• The star history looks organic.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Flags

• Warning: The latest release of the PyPI package spacy was published more than 24 months ago, while the repository has had 81 human commits in the last year (deps.dev). Details

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• spacy (PYPI): latest 4.0.0.dev3, published Apr 22, 2024
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: explosion/spaCy, deps.dev: PyPI spacy