mangiucugna/json_repair
Repair malformed JSON from LLMs, APIs, logs, and user input in Python.
5.1k stars · 221 forks · Python
Caution
Caution: one person wrote most of the recent commits.
Why
- One person wrote 99% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 12
- Human commits, 90 days
- 37
- Human commits, 365 days
- 163
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 8%
- Last commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 12, 2026 (2 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- Oct 9, 2026 (5 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- under an hour
Responsiveness: of 13 recent issues, 100% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 3 hours.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 163 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 20
Top committers
- mangiucugna: 99% of commits
- benmezger: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- Oct 18, 2023 to Oct 19, 2023: about 38 more stars than usual, peak 20 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Oct 20, 2024 to Oct 24, 2024: about 172 more stars than usual, peak 86 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 16, 2025 to Oct 28, 2025: about 795 more stars than usual, peak 265 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 8, 2026 to May 14, 2026: about 158 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
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
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- json_repair (PYPI): latest 0.64.0, published Oct 9, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: mangiucugna/json_repair, deps.dev: PyPI json_repair
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[](https://reporadar.ai/mangiucugna/json_repair)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 15, 2026: Caution
- Oct 14, 2026: Caution
Computed 6 hours ago · method 2026.10.2