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d4vinci/scrapling vs joke2k/faker

joke2k/faker shows stronger signals overall

As of September 2026, faker shows healthier maintenance signals than scrapling. faker rates Healthy overall while scrapling rates Mixed. scrapling was committed to 1 week ago with 7+ active contributors, while faker was committed to 2 weeks ago with 24+ active contributors. scrapling is BSD-3-Clause-licensed while faker is MIT-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.

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d4vinci/scrapling

Mixed

Single-maintainer risk — review before adopting

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling

  • Single-maintainer risk — top contributor 88% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 3d ago
  • 7 active contributors
  • BSD-3-Clause licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

What would improve this?

  • Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

joke2k/faker

Healthy

Strong maintenance signals

MixedDependency

dependency CVE scan unavailable

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; dependency CVE scan unavailable

  • Concentrated ownership — top contributor handles 65% of recent commits
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Last commit 1w ago
  • 24+ active contributors
  • MIT licensed
  • CI configured
  • Tests present

Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against OpenSSF Scorecard

Signal-by-signal breakdown

scraplingfaker
Stars78,79619,397
Last commit12d ago15d ago
LicenseBSD-3-ClauseMIT
Open issues1527
Has tests
Has CI
Test coverage98%8%
Dependency CVEsNo CVEsNo CVEs
Architecture gradeC
Cycles8
Bottom-lineMixed signalsHealthy signals

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