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miguelgrinberg

flask-httpauth

Simple extension that provides Basic, Digest and Token HTTP authentication for Flask routes
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

flask-httpauth has 2.7M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 4.8.1, first published in 2013.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Mar 2026.

It is built on top of flask. It is used by 83 tracked packages, including apiflask, apifairy and redisbench-admin.

GitHub topics include flask, flask-httpauth and authentication.

Downloads
Day
100.7K
Week
623.2K
Month
2.7M
Stars
1.3K
Forks
235
Issues
9
Version
4.8.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
67
Adoption
80
Community
50
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
53 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,651,353
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
2,651,353
Stars
1,291
Stars per 1k downloads
0.49
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
89,035
Month daily avg
88,378
Momentum
+0.7%
((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
MIT 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
100 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.7
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
31
Monthly downloads
2,651,353
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
50
 
Issue Burden
7.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
13.2%
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 23.4K
Windows 253
macOS 53

Python Versions

3.11
45.5% 9.5K
2.7
19.0% 4.0K
3.12
19.0% 4.0K
3.14
8.6% 1.8K
3.13
8.0% 1.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
17.6K
2. IE IE
2.5K
3. JP JP
707
4. DE DE
558
5. SG SG
441
6. CA CA
230
7. NL NL
226
8. IN IN
217
9. FR FR
159
10. HK HK
155
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
July 27, 2013
Last Release
3 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
4.8.1
Total Releases
35
Contributors
31
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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