Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-10-19 02:27 UTC

internetarchive / scholar

IA Scholar

HTML · Go · PythonAGPL-3.0★ 8 stars⑂ 0 forkssince Feb 2026View on GitHub ↗

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internetarchive/scholar holds a health index of 35 out of 100, placing it in the Weak band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (48/100) and lowest on Security (25/100). It was last updated 46 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

overall / 100

Weak

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met

Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps

Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable

Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended

Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas

At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution

Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 40 is calibrated to 35 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

Internet ArchiveOrganization

2,391 followers284 public repossince Sep 2009

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

Registry	Package	Version	Downloads / mo	Versions	Last publish
Go	github.com/internetarchive/scholar/blobproc	v1.0.4	-	5	47 days ago
Go	github.com/internetarchive/scholar/scholkit	v0.4.1	-	2	235 days ago
Go	github.com/internetarchive/scholar/pubmed2json	v1.0.0	-	1	242 days ago

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

46Weak · 21% of overall

Development activity

76Good

How it's scored

18/36	Push recency — last push 46 days ago
29.8/36	Commit cadence — 43/52 weeks with commits
18/18	Commit volume — 593 commits in the last year
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10

Inputs used

commits_last_year	593
human_commit_share	1
days_since_last_push	46
active_weeks_last_year	43

Release discipline

1Critical

How it's scored

0/27	Ships releases — no releases published
0/36	Release recency — no releases
0/27	Release cadence — no releases
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — no data

Inputs used

releases_count

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases. Remaining weights renormalized.

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

31At Risk · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

14Critical

How it's scored

13.7/60	Stars — 8 stars
0/25	Forks — 0 forks
0/15	Watchers — 0 watchers

Inputs used

forks	0
stars	8
watchers	0
growth_state	unverified
growth_factor_pct	100
growth_unverified_reason	no_history

Community health

50Moderate

How it's scored

22.5/22.5	README
22.5/22.5	License — recognized license (AGPL-3.0)
0/18	CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5	Code of conduct
0/7.2	Issue template
0/6.3	PR template

Inputs used

has_readme	yes
has_license	yes
readme_badges	0
has_contributing	no
has_issue_template	no
has_code_of_conduct	no
readme_badge_services	—
has_pull_request_template	no

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

47Weak · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

23At Risk

How it's scored

9/54	Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
0.3/22.5	Commit distribution — top contributor authored 99% of commits
4.1/13.5	Contributor breadth — 3 contributors
10/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 8 contributing companies or organizations

Inputs used

bus_factor	1
contributors_sampled	3
top_contributor_share	0.987

Issue & PR responsiveness

1Critical

How it's scored

0/42	Issue resolution — 0% of issues closed
0/30	PR acceptance — no decided pull requests or no data
0/13	Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15	OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0

Inputs used

merged_prs	0
open_issues	2
closed_issues	0
prs_merged_7d	0
prs_decided_7d	0
prs_merged_30d	0
prs_decided_30d	0
issue_closed_ratio	0
closed_unmerged_prs	0
first_time_authors_30d	0
first_time_prs_merged_30d	0
first_time_prs_decided_30d	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): PR acceptance, Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

79Good

How it's scored

30/30	Ownership backing — organization-owned
0/20	Verified domain
24.3/25	Owner reach — 2,391 followers of internetarchive
25/25	Track record — 284 public repos, account ~17 yr old

Inputs used

followers	2,391
owner_type	Organization
is_verified	no
owner_login	internetarchive
public_repos	284
account_age_days	6,234

Package maintenance

100Exceptional

How it's scored

25/25	Published & resolvable — 3 package(s) on go
35/35	Publish recency — latest publish 47 days ago
20/20	Version history — 5 published versions
20/20	Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked

Inputs used

packages	github.com/internetarchive/scholar/blobproc, github.com/internetarchive/scholar/scholkit, github.com/internetarchive/scholar/pubmed2json
ecosystems	go
any_deprecated	no
min_days_since_publish	47

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

48Weak · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

30At Risk

How it's scored

0/24	CI workflows
24/24	Tests present
0/16	Linter config
0/9.6	Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4	.editorconfig
0/20	OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — no data

Inputs used

has_ci	no
has_tests	yes
has_editorconfig	no
has_linter_config	no
has_precommit_config	no

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests. Remaining weights renormalized.

Documentation

75Good

How it's scored

30/30	README
25/25	Documentation directory
0/15	Documentation / homepage site
10/10	Repository description
0/10	Topics
10/10	Wiki

Inputs used

topics	—
has_wiki	yes
homepage	—
docs_site	—
has_readme	yes
has_docs_dir	yes
has_description	yes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

25At Risk · 16% of overall

Security posture

25At Risk

How it's scored

4.5/7.5	Binary-Artifacts — binaries present in source code
0/7.5	Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
0/2.5	CI-Tests — no data
0/2.5	CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5	Code-Review — Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5	Contributors — project has 8 contributing companies or organizations
0/10	Dangerous-Workflow — no data
0/7.5	Dependency-Update-Tool — no update tool detected
0/5	Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5	License — license file detected
7.5/7.5	Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
0/5	Packaging — no data
0/5	Pinned-Dependencies — no data
0/5	SAST — no SAST tool detected
0/5	Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5	Signed-Releases — no data
0/7.5	Token-Permissions — no data
0/7.5	Vulnerabilities — 118 existing vulnerabilities detected

Inputs used

source	openssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated	12
scorecard_version	v5.5.0
checks_inconclusive	6
scorecard_aggregate	2.5

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): CI-Tests, Dangerous-Workflow, Packaging, Pinned-Dependencies, Signed-Releases, Token-Permissions. Remaining weights renormalized.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

37Weak · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

2Critical

How it's scored

0/45	Agent instructions — no CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / editor rules
0/15	Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
1.6/40	Legible commit history — 3 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)

Inputs used

has_llms_txt	no
llms_txt_url	—
legible_history_share	0.03
agent_instruction_files	—
agent_instruction_max_bytes	—

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

56Moderate

How it's scored

18/18	One-command bootstrap — blobproc/Makefile, djscholar/Makefile, scholkit/Makefile, scholkit/notes/Makefile, trawler/Makefile
22/22	Automated tests
0/11	Lint / format config
0/11	Static type checking
10/10	Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10	Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
0/8	Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
0/10	OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — no data

Inputs used

has_nix	no
has_tests	yes
lockfiles	go.sum, uv.lock
has_dockerfile	yes
typed_language	no
bootstrap_files	blobproc/Makefile, djscholar/Makefile, scholkit/Makefile, scholkit/notes/Makefile, trawler/Makefile
has_devcontainer	no
has_linter_config	no
typecheck_configs	—
agent_commit_share	0
toolchain_manifests	blobproc/go.mod, fcmatch/go.mod, kbart/go.mod, pubmed2json/go.mod, scholkit/go.mod, scripts/citeseerx/go.mod, scripts/sitemap/go.mod, scripts/thumbs/go.mod, trawler/go.mod
dependency_bot_commit_share	0

Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies. Remaining weights renormalized.

Code legibility for models

55Moderate

How it's scored

0/45	Type-checkable code — HTML without a type-check config
55/55	Manageable file sizes — 0/262 source files over 60KB

Inputs used

primary_language	HTML
largest_source_bytes	59,777
source_files_sampled	262
oversized_source_files	0

Machine-readable interfaces

40Weak

How it's scored

0/40	API schema (OpenAPI/GraphQL/proto)
0/20	MCP server
40/40	Runnable examples — samples

Inputs used

example_dirs	samples
has_mcp_signal	no
api_schema_files	—
interfaces_expected_of	network-service

Key facts

8GitHub stars

3contributors

593commits, last 12 months

46days since last push

0releases

1bus factor

2open issues

Go, PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token
Could not fetch go package 'github.com/internetarchive/scholar/kbart' from its registry
Could not fetch go package 'git.archive.org/webgroup/scholar/scripts/fcmatch' from its registry
Could not fetch go package 'git.archive.org/webgroup/scholar/trawler' from its registry
Could not fetch pypi package 'fcpatch' from its registry
Could not fetch pypi package 'djscholar' from its registry
GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository

More detail

OpenSSF Scorecard 2.5 / 10

2.5aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-10-19 02:26 UTC

6	Binary-Artifacts	binaries present in source code
0	Branch-Protection	branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
n/a	CI-Tests	no pull request found
0	CII-Best-Practices	no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0	Code-Review	Found 0/30 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10	Contributors	project has 8 contributing companies or organizations
n/a	Dangerous-Workflow	no workflows found
0	Dependency-Update-Tool	no update tool detected
0	Fuzzing	project is not fuzzed
10	License	license file detected
10	Maintained	30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
n/a	Packaging	packaging workflow not detected
n/a	Pinned-Dependencies	no dependencies found
0	SAST	no SAST tool detected
0	Security-Policy	security policy file not detected
n/a	Signed-Releases	no releases found
n/a	Token-Permissions	No tokens found
0	Vulnerabilities	118 existing vulnerabilities detected

Direct dependencies 69

Registry	Package	Version constraint	Manifest
Go	github.com/adrg/xdg	`v0.5.3`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/gabriel-vasile/mimetype	`v1.4.12`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/gen2brain/go-fitz	`v1.24.15`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/google/go-cmp	`v0.7.0`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/gorilla/handlers	`v1.5.2`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/gorilla/mux	`v1.8.1`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/internetarchive/gowarc	`v0.8.96`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/jmoiron/sqlx	`v1.4.0`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/miku/grobidclient	`v0.2.7`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/minio/minio-go/v7	`v7.0.97`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu	`v0.14.0`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3	`v3.24.5`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/viper	`v1.21.0`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go	`v0.40.0`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	modernc.org/sqlite	`v1.41.0`	blobproc/go.mod
Go	mvdan.cc/xurls/v2	`v2.6.0`	blobproc/go.mod
PyPI	django	`==5.1.5`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	elasticsearch	`==7.13.4`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	django-ninja	`==1.4.0`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	gevent	`==25.5.1`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	gunicorn	`>=23.0`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	ninja-api-key	`==1.0.2`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	psycopg	`==3.2.4`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	python-dateutil	`==2.9.*`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	sentry-sdk	`==2.30`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	surt	`==0.3.1`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	jinja2	`==3.1.6`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	pygal	`==3.1.0`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	citeproc-py	`==0.9.0`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	citeproc-py-styles	`==0.1.5`	djscholar/pyproject.toml
PyPI	diskcache	`>=5.6.3`	fcmigrate/pyproject.toml
PyPI	psycopg	`>=3.2.5`	fcmigrate/pyproject.toml
PyPI	diskcache	`>=5.6.3`	fcpatch/pyproject.toml
PyPI	psycopg	`>=3.2.5`	fcpatch/pyproject.toml
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	kbart/go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	kbart/go.mod
Go	github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery	`v1.10.2`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/adrg/xdg	`v0.5.3`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/araddon/dateparse	`v0.0.0-20210429162001-6b43995a97de`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/internetarchive/scholar/pubmed2json	`v1.0.0`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/jinzhu/now	`v1.1.5`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/klauspost/compress	`v1.18.0`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/miku/metha	`v0.4.16`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/minio/minio-go/v7	`v7.0.95`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/segmentio/encoding	`v0.4.1`	scholkit/go.mod
Go	github.com/sethgrid/pester	`v1.2.0`	scholkit/go.mod
PyPI	httpx	`>=0.28`	scholstats/pyproject.toml
PyPI	pandas	`>=2.3`	scholstats/pyproject.toml
PyPI	httpx-retries	`>=0.4`	scholstats/pyproject.toml
PyPI	jinja2	`>=3.1.6`	scholstats/pyproject.toml
Go	github.com/spf13/cobra	`v1.10.2`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery	`v1.10.3`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/getsentry/sentry-go	`v0.44.1`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/google/uuid	`v1.6.0`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/internetarchive/gowarc	`v0.8.98`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/internetarchive/scholar/blobproc	`v1.0.4`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/internetarchive/scholar/pubmed2json	`v1.0.0`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/miku/grobidclient	`v0.2.7`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/minio/minio-go/v7	`v7.0.97`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/spf13/viper	`v1.21.0`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/stretchr/testify	`v1.11.1`	trawler/go.mod
Go	github.com/uphold/temporal-sentry-interceptor	`v0.0.0-20260331134514-2523356788ee`	trawler/go.mod
Go	go.temporal.io/api	`v1.52.0`	trawler/go.mod
Go	go.temporal.io/sdk	`v1.35.0`	trawler/go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/net	`v0.56.0`	trawler/go.mod
Go	golang.org/x/text	`v0.40.0`	trawler/go.mod
Go	google.golang.org/protobuf	`v1.36.8`	trawler/go.mod

All dependencies not collected

The resolved dependency set could not be collected for this report: GitHub dependency-graph SBOM unavailable (404); the dependency graph may be disabled for this repository

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Scores are signals, not warranties. They reflect publicly visible practices on GitHub — not a code audit, and not a security guarantee.

Missing data is excluded and weights renormalized, never scored as zero. Methodology is versioned and open: metrics v2.10.0, schema v0.34.0 — full methodology · metrics wiki.

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