No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
boxsdk has 4M monthly downloads and 458 GitHub stars. Version 10.12.0, first published in 2015.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of requests and requests-toolbelt. It is used by 14 tracked packages, including duplicity, boxfs and automation-file.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
60
Adoption
90
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,985,861
•
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
3,985,861
Stars
458
Stars per 1k downloads
0.11
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
146,912
Month daily avg
132,862
Momentum
+10.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
Apache-2.0, http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-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
25 days ago
Total releases
114
Releases/year
10.0
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
57
Monthly downloads
3,985,861
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
67
Issue Burden
61.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
25.7%
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
110.3K
Windows
214
macOS
173
Python Versions
3.11
69.3%
75.8K
3.12
16.3%
17.9K
3.10
10.0%
10.9K
3.9
2.5%
2.7K
3.13
2.0%
2.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
69.6K
US
2.
DE
24.1K
DE
3.
BR
6.8K
BR
4.
SG
3.5K
SG
5.
GB
2.3K
GB
6.
CA
1.8K
CA
7.
AU
1.7K
AU
8.
ZA
478
ZA
9.
JP
244
JP
10.
IE
194
IE
Dependencies
2
10 optional dependencies
- cryptography[jwt]
- cryptography[test]
- pyjwt[jwt]
- pyjwt[test]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- pytest-rerunfailures[test]
- pytest-timeout[test]
- pytest-xdist[test]
- tox[dev]
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0, http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
First Release
February 6, 2015
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
10.12.0
Total Releases
114
Contributors
57
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Box
Python Versions
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh