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The world's simplest facial recognition api for Python and the command line

License history

LICENSE file

MIT No license change recorded since the repository was created in 2017.

Latest release

v1.2.2 published Apr 2, 2018

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About and history
Repository
ageitgey/face_recognition · created Mar 3, 2017
Language
Python
Foundation
None; run by its maintainers
GitHub detects
MIT
Stars per week
16 (GitHub weekly snapshots)

Weekly snapshots

Week ofStars
Nov 9, 202656,888
Oct 26, 202656,866
Oct 19, 202656,843
Oct 12, 202656,816
Sep 28, 202656,785
Sep 21, 202656,776

Changes

Stars per weekNov 10, 2026

Gains about 16 stars a week, down from 18.

Stars per weekOct 31, 2026

Gains about 18 stars a week, up from 17.

Stars per weekOct 21, 2026

Gains about 17 stars a week, up from 13.

Stars per weekOct 13, 2026

Gains about 13 stars a week, up from 9.

ReleaseOct 13, 2026

Latest release on GitHub: v1.2.2.

Stars per weekSep 28, 2026

Gains about 9 stars a week.

TrackedSep 25, 2026

Now tracked, from ageitgey/face_recognition on GitHub.