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github3-py

Hi, I'm a library for interacting with GItHub's REST API in a convenient and ergonomic way. I work on Python 3.6+.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

github3-py has 5.8M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 4.0.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2012.

It is stably maintained, last released in Apr 2023.

It is built on top of pyjwt, python-dateutil and requests. It is used by 74 tracked packages, including dagster-cloud-cli, cumulusci and bowtie-json-schema.

GitHub topics include github, github-api and python36.

Downloads
Day
187.4K
Week
1.3M
Month
5.8M
Stars
1.3K
Forks
410
Issues
63
Version
4.0.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
69
Adoption
70
Community
95
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
75 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,847,371
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
5,847,371
Stars
1,252
Stars per 1k downloads
0.21
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
188,882
Month daily avg
194,912
Momentum
-3.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
OSI Approved
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
1167 days ago
Total releases
53
Releases/year
3.8
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
155
Monthly downloads
5,847,371
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
89
 
Issue Burden
50.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
37.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1091d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 60.3K
Windows 370
macOS 120

Python Versions

3.12
43.6% 25.7K
3.13
32.3% 19.0K
3.11
14.4% 8.5K
3.10
7.5% 4.4K
3.14
2.2% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
42.6K
2. DE DE
11.3K
3. BE BE
2.2K
4. NL NL
1.7K
5. ES ES
558
6. FR FR
538
7. SG SG
458
8. IE IE
327
9. ZA ZA
166
10. GB GB
137
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
OSI Approved
First Release
June 28, 2012
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
4.0.1
Total Releases
53
Contributors
155
Open PRs
9
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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