Package
python-shell
Run Python scripts from Node.js with simple (but efficient) inter-process communication through stdio
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 608k
- +506% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 0
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 3 years ago
- v5.0.0
- GitHub stars
- 2.2k
- 233 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 56 / 21
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 15
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
608,045 downloads last week. The 12-month change of +506% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 025 in total
- Latest version
- 5.0.0, 11 Feb 20233 years ago
- First published
- 12 Mar 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 1 Mar 2026207 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 56
- Open pull requests
- 21
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 15
- Dependents on npm
- -
Major versions
- v5 first release 5.0.0, 11 Feb 2023
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 11 Feb 2023
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 27 Mar 2021
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 3 May 2020
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 2 Sept 2018
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 12 Mar 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 5.0.0 | 11 Feb 2023 |
| 4.0.0 | 11 Feb 2023 |
| 3.0.1 | 9 Oct 2021 |
| 3.0.0 | 27 Mar 2021 |
| 2.0.3 | 20 Nov 2020 |
| 2.0.2 | 22 Sept 2020 |
| 2.0.1 | 19 May 2020 |
| 2.0.0 | 3 May 2020 |
| 1.0.8 | 4 Aug 2019 |
| 1.0.7 | 29 Dec 2018 |
| 1.0.6 | 7 Oct 2018 |
| 1.0.5 | 7 Oct 2018 |
| 1.0.4 | 8 Sept 2018 |
| 1.0.3 | 3 Sept 2018 |
- Module format
- -Not determined from package.json
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=0.10
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 53 kB
- Dependencies (0)
- None
npm install python-shell- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/python-shell@5.0.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/python-shell@5.0.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/python-shell@5.0.0
Indexability: Indexed.