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cachecontrol

The httplib2 caching algorithms packaged up for use with requests.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

cachecontrol has 124.3M monthly downloads and 500 GitHub stars. Version 0.14.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is built on top of msgpack and requests. It is used by 180 tracked packages, including poetry, pip-audit and firebase-admin.

Downloads
Day
3.7M
Week
26.7M
Month
124.3M
Stars
500
Forks
144
Issues
26
Version
0.14.4

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
59
Adoption
70
Community
75
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
124,289,694
• 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
124,289,694
Stars
500
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
3,819,218
Month daily avg
4,142,990
Momentum
-7.8%
((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
234 days ago
Total releases
52
Releases/year
4.0
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
78
Monthly downloads
124,289,694
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
77
 
Issue Burden
52.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
54.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
227d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.9M
Windows 27.2K
macOS 23.7K

Python Versions

3.12
38.9% 711.7K
3.11
27.5% 503.6K
3.13
12.8% 233.6K
3.10
12.4% 226.3K
3.14
8.5% 155.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.6M
2. DE DE
104.0K
3. IE IE
56.5K
4. SG SG
39.3K
5. NL NL
29.8K
6. GB GB
26.4K
7. FR FR
18.5K
8. JP JP
16.4K
9. IN IN
11.5K
10. AU AU
10.7K

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
June 18, 2013
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
0.14.4
Total Releases
52
Contributors
78
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Author
Eric Larson, Frost Ming, William Woodruff
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
requests http caching web
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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