Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
PYSEC-2023-242
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 1 month ago
httpie has 1.1M monthly downloads and 38K GitHub stars. Version 3.2.4 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2012.
It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2024.
It is built on top of charset-normalizer, colorama and defusedxml. It is used by 48 tracked packages, including veracode-api-signing, httpie-edgegrid and graftpunk.
GitHub topics include http, cli and client.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High downloads but no recent maintenance activity
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
94
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
566 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,102,080
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
1,102,080
Stars
38,279
Stars per 1k downloads
34.73
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
36,580
Month daily avg
36,736
Momentum
-0.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
BSD
•
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
612 days ago
Total releases
54
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
152
Monthly downloads
1,102,080
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
65
Issue Burden
4.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
3.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
14.2K
Windows
514
macOS
84
Python Versions
3.11
49.1%
7.0K
3.12
27.1%
3.8K
3.13
12.4%
1.8K
3.10
6.4%
901
3.14
5.0%
715
Top Countries
1.
US
9.6K
US
2.
BR
2.9K
BR
3.
HK
731
HK
4.
KR
433
KR
5.
CA
285
CA
6.
SG
253
SG
7.
ID
204
ID
8.
IE
179
IE
9.
AU
120
AU
10.
NL
114
NL
Dependencies
11
- charset-normalizer >=2.0.0
- colorama >=0.2.4
- defusedxml >=0.6.0
- importlib-metadata >=1.4.0
- multidict >=4.7.0
- pip
- pygments >=2.5.2
- requests >=2.22.0
- requests-toolbelt >=0.9.1
- rich >=9.10.0
- setuptools
21 optional dependencies
- flake8[dev]
- flake8-comprehensions[dev]
- flake8-deprecated[dev]
- flake8-mutable[dev]
- flake8-tuple[dev]
- jinja2[dev]
- pyopenssl[dev]
- pytest[test]
- pytest[dev]
- pytest-cov[dev]
- pytest-httpbin[test]
- pytest-httpbin[dev]
- pytest-mock[test]
- pytest-mock[dev]
- pyyaml[dev]
- responses[test]
- responses[dev]
- twine[dev]
- werkzeug[dev]
- werkzeug[test]
- wheel[dev]
Used By
48
- veracode-api-signing
- httpie-edgegrid
- graftpunk
- dnastack-client-library
- httpie-jwt-auth
- dalineunit
- rhubarbe
- avaintegration-metapackage
- encapsia-cli
- httpie-websockets
- httpie-kong-hmac
- ipkg
- httpie-hush
- pycronorg
- ishutils
- httpie-api-auth
- httpie-credential-store
- omop-cdm-graphql
- panoptes-aag
- httpie-oauth2-client-credentials-flow
- httpie-http-message-signatures
- httpie-web-bot-auth
- okik
- httpie-svb-auth
- httpie-xsisip
- httpie-digirm-auth
- httpie-akamai
- httpie-firebase-auth
- httpie-curl-cffi
- httpie-salesforce
- httpie-nifcloud-authv4
- httpony
- httpie-kws
- httpie-media-auth
- httpie-auth-plugin-for-oauth2-client-credentials
- wallypub
- httpie-llnw-auth
- httpie-mauth
- httpie-zipkin
- zapman
- httpie-apikey-auth
- httpie-auth-store
- httpie-consul
- whale-http
- amin-assignment
- amin-dna-assignment
- dna-amin-assignment
- amin-dnastack
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD
First Release
February 25, 2012
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
3.2.4
Total Releases
54
Contributors
152
Open PRs
118
Archived
No
Author
Jakub Roztocil
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh