PyRank
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httpcore

A minimal HTTP client. ⚙️
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

httpcore has 724.5M monthly downloads and 542 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.9 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2019.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Apr 2025.

It is built on top of certifi and h11. It is used by 844 tracked packages, including httpx, python-telegram-bot and prefect.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (encode/httpcore) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
22.8M
Week
163.1M
Month
724.5M
Stars
542
Forks
179
Issues
10
Version
1.0.9

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
60
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
266 days ago
Monthly downloads
724,468,154
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
724,468,154
Stars
542
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
23,301,792
Month daily avg
24,148,938
Momentum
-3.5%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
437 days ago
Total releases
64
Releases/year
8.8
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
58
Monthly downloads
724,468,154
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
95
 
Issue Burden
18.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
217.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
171d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 15.8M
Windows 392.0K
macOS 222.8K

Python Versions

3.12
39.0% 6.2M
3.11
25.8% 4.1M
3.10
14.9% 2.4M
3.13
14.8% 2.3M
3.14
5.5% 867.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
12.2M
2. SG SG
980.3K
3. IN IN
606.5K
4. DE DE
363.8K
5. NL NL
269.4K
6. IE IE
215.1K
7. GB GB
181.5K
8. JP JP
164.1K
9. FR FR
159.8K
10. HK HK
125.3K

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
April 4, 2019
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
8 months ago
Latest Version
1.0.9
Total Releases
64
Contributors
58
Open PRs
43
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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