PyRank
certbot

acme

Certbot is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

acme has 5.7M monthly downloads and 33K GitHub stars. Version 5.6.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2015.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of cryptography, josepy and pyopenssl. It is used by 131 tracked packages, including certbot-dns-cloudflare, certbot and certbot-dns-directadmin.

GitHub topics include acme, acme-client and certbot.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (certbot/certbot) with 20 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
207.1K
Week
1.4M
Month
5.7M
Stars
33.1K
Forks
3.5K
Issues
140
Version
5.6.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
93
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
12 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,746,253
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
5,746,253
Stars
33,120
Stars per 1k downloads
5.76
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
201,684
Month daily avg
191,542
Momentum
+5.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
Apache-2.0
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
56 days ago
Total releases
151
Releases/year
14.0
• Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
485
Monthly downloads
5,746,253
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
65
 
Issue Burden
4.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 182.1K
Windows 342
macOS 335

Python Versions

3.11
59.1% 106.8K
3.13
32.4% 58.5K
3.14
3.7% 6.8K
3.12
3.7% 6.6K
3.10
1.1% 2.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
103.2K
2. DE DE
24.5K
3. AU AU
17.8K
4. HU HU
17.5K
5. MX MX
11.9K
6. GB GB
1.1K
7. SG SG
944
8. NL NL
848
9. FR FR
784
10. RU RU
767
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
October 6, 2015
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
5.6.0
Total Releases
151
Contributors
485
Open PRs
67
Archived
No
Author
Certbot Project
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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