No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
httpx has 740.9M monthly downloads and 15K GitHub stars. Version 0.28.1 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2019.
It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2024.
It is built on top of anyio, certifi and httpcore. It is used by 35,974 tracked packages, including litellm, huggingface-hub and openai.
GitHub topics include http, trio and asyncio.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 443 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
88
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
133 days ago
Monthly downloads
740,879,715
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
740,879,715
Stars
15,339
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
23,759,196
Month daily avg
24,695,990
Momentum
-3.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
577 days ago
Total releases
74
Releases/year
10.6
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
236
Monthly downloads
740,879,715
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
82
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
59.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
19.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
443d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
16.2M
Windows
400.3K
macOS
227.0K
Python Versions
3.12
39.1%
6.3M
3.11
25.7%
4.2M
3.10
15.0%
2.4M
3.13
14.7%
2.4M
3.14
5.6%
906.3K
Top Countries
1.
US
12.5M
US
2.
SG
983.3K
SG
3.
IN
617.4K
IN
4.
DE
367.8K
DE
5.
NL
286.7K
NL
6.
IE
230.5K
IE
7.
GB
183.3K
GB
8.
JP
173.6K
JP
9.
FR
161.4K
FR
10.
HK
125.2K
HK
Used By
35974
- litellm
- huggingface-hub
- openai
- google-genai
- mcp
- pydantic-ai-slim
- weaviate-client
- browser-use
- anthropic
- pydantic-graph
- datasets
- langsmith
- lmnr
- langgraph-sdk
- pinotdb
- jupyterlab
- mistralai
- python-telegram-bot
- cohere
- fastapi-cloud-cli
- langchain-google-vertexai
- llama-cloud
- groq
- supabase
- qdrant-client
- storage3
- postgrest
- langfuse
- ollama
- wikipedia-api
- openlineage-python
- fastapi-mcp
- weasel
- supabase-auth
- supabase-functions
- google-adk
- apache-airflow-providers-google
- firebase-admin
- gradio
- llama-index-core
- microsoft-kiota-http
- cdp-use
- openhands-sdk
- msgraph-core
- chromadb
- gradio-client
- prefect
- browser-use-sdk
- pytest-httpx
- crewai
Package Information
License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
July 19, 2019
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
0.28.1
Total Releases
74
Contributors
236
Open PRs
80
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh