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hiredis

Python wrapper for hiredis
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

hiredis has 28.2M monthly downloads and 522 GitHub stars. Version 3.4.0 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2011.

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

It is used by 162 tracked packages, including weblate, redis-om and tensorizer.

Downloads
Day
870.6K
Week
6.2M
Month
28.2M
Stars
522
Forks
103
Issues
5
Version
3.4.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
34 days ago
Monthly downloads
28,164,856
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
28,164,856
Stars
522
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
• 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
882,626
Month daily avg
938,829
Momentum
-6.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
33 days ago
Total releases
35
Releases/year
2.3
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
84
Monthly downloads
28,164,856
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
67
 
Issue Burden
9.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
81.6%
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 519.8K
macOS 2.4K
Windows 1.8K

Python Versions

3.12
44.4% 221.5K
3.13
19.7% 98.1K
3.11
16.6% 82.6K
3.9
9.8% 48.7K
3.14
9.6% 48.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
423.3K
2. DE DE
25.6K
3. IE IE
10.4K
4. IN IN
6.8K
5. GB GB
5.7K
6. KR KR
4.8K
7. NL NL
4.8K
8. SG SG
4.5K
9. FR FR
4.0K
10. NO NO
3.7K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 28, 2011
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
3.4.0
Total Releases
35
Contributors
84
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Jan-Erik Rediger, Pieter Noordhuis
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp34 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 pp27 pp310 pp36 pp37 pp38 pp39
Keywords
Redis
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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