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hishel

Elegant HTTP Caching for Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

hishel has 5.3M monthly downloads and 398 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2023.

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

It is built on top of msgpack and typing-extensions. It is used by 77 tracked packages, including pdm, githubkit and pytoyoda.

GitHub topics include caching, http and http-cache.

Downloads
Day
187.2K
Week
1.2M
Month
5.3M
Stars
398
Forks
49
Issues
12
Version
1.3.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
53
Adoption
80
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,284,771
• 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
5,284,771
Stars
398
Stars per 1k downloads
0.08
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
178,437
Month daily avg
176,159
Momentum
+1.3%
((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
BSD 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
25 days ago
Total releases
59
Releases/year
19.9
• 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
40
Monthly downloads
5,284,771
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
30.2
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 90.2K
Windows 790
macOS 770

Python Versions

3.12
37.5% 32.8K
3.10
34.2% 30.0K
3.13
13.7% 12.0K
3.14
8.7% 7.7K
3.11
5.9% 5.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
86.2K
2. DE DE
3.3K
3. NO NO
2.7K
4. FR FR
1.1K
5. NL NL
1.0K
6. CH CH
857
7. SG SG
812
8. GB GB
779
9. IE IE
581
10. ES ES
384
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD License
First Release
July 22, 2023
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
1.3.0
Total Releases
59
Contributors
40
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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