Is chardet safe to use?

chardet has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (7.4.3). DepScope rates its health at 57/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of chardet?

The latest version of chardet is 7.4.3, released 2026-04-13.

Does chardet have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of chardet.

Is chardet deprecated?

No, chardet is actively maintained. Latest release: 7.4.3 (2026-04-13).

What are alternatives to chardet?

Popular alternatives to chardet in PyPI include: boto3, urllib3, certifi, requests, charset_normalizer.

What license does chardet use?

chardet is licensed under 0BSD.

chardet

pypiv7.4.3

Universal character encoding detector

License 0BSDpermissive28 versions0 deps

chardet/chardet

/ 100

Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (57/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (57/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

5/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

OSS Scorecard

OpenSSF security posture score

6.3/10

moderate

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

2

Contributors (12m)

2

Primary author dominance

99%

GitHub stars

2,603

single author dominance

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.50high

Download trend

growing(+10.9%)

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/chardet