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curl-cffi

Python binding for curl-impersonate fork via cffi. A http client that can impersonate browser tls/ja3/http2 fingerprints.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

curl-cffi has 34.9M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 0.15.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2022.

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

It is built on top of certifi, cffi and rich. It is used by 726 tracked packages, including yfinance, akshare and garminconnect.

GitHub topics include curl, http-client and curl-impersonate.

Downloads
Day
1.3M
Week
9.2M
Month
34.9M
Stars
6.0K
Forks
513
Issues
49
Version
0.15.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
80
Adoption
90
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
20 days ago
Monthly downloads
34,856,313
• 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
34,856,313
Stars
5,996
Stars per 1k downloads
0.17
• 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
1,311,933
Month daily avg
1,161,877
Momentum
+12.9%
((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
MIT
• 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
96 days ago
Total releases
94
Releases/year
24.2
• 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
65
Monthly downloads
34,856,313
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
73
 
Issue Burden
8.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
3.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
12.7%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
75d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 1.1M
Windows 35.7K
macOS 19.5K

Python Versions

3.12
54.7% 605.9K
3.11
19.9% 220.3K
3.14
10.1% 111.9K
3.13
9.8% 108.0K
3.10
5.5% 60.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
898.1K
2. DE DE
46.3K
3. GB GB
32.8K
4. JP JP
19.0K
5. HK HK
17.5K
6. SG SG
16.8K
7. CN CN
11.1K
8. NL NL
10.3K
9. IN IN
10.1K
10. TW TW
6.3K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 23, 2022
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.15.0
Total Releases
94
Contributors
65
Open PRs
18
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp310 cp311 cp313 cp314 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp37 pp38 pp39
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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