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davidmuller

aws-requests-auth

AWS signature version 4 signing process for the python requests module
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

aws-requests-auth has 24.8M monthly downloads and 508 GitHub stars. Version 0.4.3, first published in 2015.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2020.

It is built on top of requests. It is used by 44 tracked packages, including strands-agents-tools, elastalert2 and vastdb.

Downloads
Day
814.5K
Week
5.8M
Month
24.8M
Stars
508
Forks
90
Issues
12
Version
0.4.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
57
Adoption
80
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1863 days ago
Monthly downloads
24,778,995
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
24,778,995
Stars
508
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
828,416
Month daily avg
825,966
Momentum
+0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD License
• 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
2231 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
1.4
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
11
Monthly downloads
24,778,995
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
56
 
Issue Burden
23.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
368d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 624.5K
Windows 30.5K
macOS 290

Python Versions

3.7
42.1% 251.6K
3.9
25.1% 150.2K
3.12
13.9% 83.2K
3.11
10.9% 65.2K
3.10
7.9% 47.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
541.2K
2. IE IE
38.9K
3. DE DE
27.5K
4. BR BR
8.7K
5. JP JP
6.9K
6. SG SG
5.4K
7. CA CA
4.1K
8. IN IN
4.0K
9. KR KR
3.3K
10. GB GB
3.3K

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
October 24, 2015
Last Release
6 years ago
Last Commit
5 years ago
Latest Version
0.4.3
Total Releases
15
Contributors
11
Open PRs
10
Archived
No
Author
David Muller
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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