wakepy
wakelock / keep-awake / stay-awake
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
Yes. Wakepy is actively maintained, has zero known vulnerabilities, minimal dependencies, and a permissive MIT license. It solves a real cross-platform problem using proper system APIs rather than hacks. Install it if you need to prevent sleep or lock during long tasks.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- Low friction: pure Python wheel with only two runtime dependencies (jeepney and typing-extensions), both lightweight.
- Active maintenance with recent releases; last commit 2026-04-01.
License · maintenance · safety
permissive license (permissive) — MIT License (permissive) — you can use, modify, and distribute wakepy freely in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.
last release 2026-02-07 (188 days) · last repo commit 2026-04-01 · 261 stars
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 168,094 downloads/mo, #10,454 on PyPI
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pip install wakepy
from wakepy import keep
@keep.running
def long_task():
# Your long-running code here
pass- Whether the package works reliably across all listed Unix desktop environments without additional system configuration
- Performance overhead when running keep.running or keep.presenting modes over extended periods
What it is and what it does
Wakepy is a cross-platform Python library and CLI tool that prevents your system from automatically sleeping, suspending, or locking the screen during long-running tasks. It works on Windows (via SetThreadExecutionState), macOS (via caffeinate), and Linux/Unix systems with GNOME, KDE Plasma, or Freedesktop.org desktop environments. The package offers two main modes: keep.running inhibits sleep and suspend but allows screen lock and screensaver, while keep.presenting also keeps the display active and prevents screen lock.
You use it either as a decorator or context manager around your code, or invoke it from the command line. It's designed to be non-disruptive—it uses only the system APIs provided for this purpose, never simulates keyboard or mouse input—and safe to crash; killing the process leaves no lingering state. The package has minimal dependencies: on Linux it requires jeepney for D-Bus communication, and on Python 3.9 and earlier it needs typing-extensions; otherwise it has no Python dependencies.
Use it for
- Training machine learning models or running long data-processing pipelines that must not be interrupted by system sleep
- Video encoding, transcoding, or upscaling tasks that require the system to stay awake for hours
- Displaying dashboards, monitoring applications, or videos that require the screen to remain on and unlocked
- Web scraping or data archival operations that run unattended overnight or over many hours
- Automated hardware control or instrumentation tasks (e.g., knitting machines, scientific instruments) that must complete without interruption
Worth the install?
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Yes.
Wakepy is actively maintained, has zero known vulnerabilities, minimal dependencies, and a permissive MIT license. It solves a real cross-platform problem using proper system APIs rather than hacks. Install it if you need to prevent sleep or lock during long tasks.
Install
wakepy on PyPI
Before you install
Low friction: pure Python wheel with only two runtime dependencies (jeepney and typing-extensions), both lightweight. Active maintenance with recent releases; last commit 2026-04-01.
License in practice
MIT License (permissive) — you can use, modify, and distribute wakepy freely in commercial and private projects with minimal restrictions.
Quickstart
pip install wakepy
from wakepy import keep
@keep.running
def long_task():
# Your long-running code here
passVerify before relying
- Whether the package works reliably across all listed Unix desktop environments without additional system configuration
- Performance overhead when running keep.running or keep.presenting modes over extended periods
Package facts
| License | permissive license permissive |
| Python support | Supports the current Python release >=3.7 |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | 2 packagesjeepneytyping-extensions |
| Maintenance | Actively maintained 188 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 168,094 / month, #10,454 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | Development Status :: 5 - Production/StableEnvironment :: ConsoleIntended Audience :: DevelopersLicense :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseOperating System :: MacOSOperating System :: Microsoft :: WindowsOperating System :: POSIXOperating System :: POSIX :: BSDOperating System :: POSIX :: BSD :: FreeBSDOperating System :: POSIX :: BSD :: NetBSDOperating System :: POSIX :: BSD :: OpenBSDOperating System :: POSIX :: LinuxOperating System :: POSIX :: OtherOperating System :: UnixProgramming Language :: Python :: 3Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14Programming Language :: Python :: 3.15Programming Language :: Python :: 3.7Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8Programming Language :: Python :: 3.9Programming Language :: Python :: Free ThreadingProgramming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: CPythonProgramming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPyTopic :: UtilitiesTyping :: Typed |
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