PyRank
python-hyper

h2

Pure-Python HTTP/2 protocol implementation
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

h2 has 166.7M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 4.3.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.

It is built on top of hpack and hyperframe. It is used by 223 tracked packages, including grpclib, hypercorn and mitmproxy.

Downloads
Day
4.5M
Week
34.3M
Month
166.7M
Stars
1.0K
Forks
178
Issues
21
Version
4.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
44 days ago
Monthly downloads
166,678,221
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
166,678,221
Stars
1,035
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
4,900,995
Month daily avg
5,555,941
Momentum
-11.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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 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
317 days ago
Total releases
45
Releases/year
4.2
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
166,678,221
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
63
 
Issue Burden
20.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
272d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.3M
Windows 61.3K
macOS 26.9K

Python Versions

3.12
34.7% 1.1M
3.11
30.6% 1.0M
3.13
17.1% 561.7K
3.10
12.3% 403.3K
3.14
5.4% 175.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
2.7M
2. SG SG
113.1K
3. NL NL
89.6K
4. DE DE
65.7K
5. IE IE
41.3K
6. IN IN
35.2K
7. FR FR
27.4K
8. KR KR
26.4K
9. HK HK
26.0K
10. GB GB
25.9K

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
October 15, 2015
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
4.3.0
Total Releases
45
Contributors
65
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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