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intake/intake

Intake is a lightweight package for finding, investigating, loading and disseminating data. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/intake/intake · homepage · Python · BSD-2-Clause (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

72/100

  • Activity 88
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3306
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 76
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1085 stars · 149 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Intake is a lightweight Python package for describing data declaratively, gathering datasets into searchable catalogs, and loading data from many formats and remote storage backends. It uses a plugin/driver system so third-party packages can add support for additional data sources.

Use cases

  • build a searchable catalog of datasets
  • load data from remote storage in python
  • describe data sources declaratively
  • find the right dataset across multiple catalogs
  • standardize data access across a data science team
  • load csv parquet and other formats through one interface

When to choose

  • you need a unified, declarative interface to many heterogeneous data sources
  • you want to share curated dataset catalogs across a team or organization
  • you work in the PyData ecosystem (pandas, dask, xarray) and want lazy data loading

When to avoid

  • you only read a single local file format and don't need cataloging
  • you need a full data versioning or lineage system rather than access layer
  • your stack is not Python-based

Facets

library · maturity active

data-science etl plugin-system search-engine data-science databases analytics python cross-platform data-catalog data-access data-loading catalogs data-engineering

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Member repositories

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