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mailgun/talon

None observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/mailgun/talon · Python · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4423
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1050
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1342 stars · 305 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Talon is a Python library from Mailgun that extracts reply quotations and signatures from email messages, both plain text and HTML. It combines rule-based brute-force parsing with SVM-based machine learning classifiers trained on personal and ENRON email datasets.

Use cases

  • extract the reply text from an email thread
  • strip quoted original messages from replies
  • detect and remove email signatures
  • parse email bodies for a helpdesk or CRM app
  • clean up forwarded message chains in plain text and HTML

When to choose

  • you need to separate replies, quotes, and signatures in email processing pipelines
  • you want both simple heuristic and ML-based extraction options
  • you're building email automation in Python

When to avoid

  • you need actively maintained software with recent fixes
  • you need full MIME/email parsing rather than body cleanup
  • your stack isn't Python

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

nlp parser machine-learning email developer-tools python cross-platform email-parsing quotation-extraction signature-detection reply-extraction svm-classifier natural-language-processing

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