No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
multidict has 569.9M monthly downloads and 489 GitHub stars. Version 6.7.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.
It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 753 tracked packages, including aiobotocore, aiohttp and yarl.
GitHub topics include aiohttp, multidict and headers.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 148 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
569,946,384
•
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
569,946,384
Stars
489
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
18,090,570
Month daily avg
18,998,213
Momentum
-4.8%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
Apache License 2.0
•
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
162 days ago
Total releases
149
Releases/year
14.3
•
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
93
Monthly downloads
569,946,384
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
85
Issue Burden
22.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
6.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
73.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
148d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
14.0M
Windows
240.7K
macOS
115.9K
Python Versions
3.12
42.8%
5.7M
3.11
22.4%
3.0M
3.13
16.5%
2.2M
3.10
12.0%
1.6M
3.9
6.3%
835.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
10.9M
US
2.
IN
605.9K
IN
3.
SG
472.4K
SG
4.
DE
354.6K
DE
5.
IE
303.0K
IE
6.
NL
288.7K
NL
7.
GB
205.8K
GB
8.
JP
155.3K
JP
9.
CA
123.3K
CA
10.
FR
92.6K
FR
Dependencies
1
- typing-extensions >=4.1.0
Used By
753
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- aiohttp
- yarl
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- nucliadb
- open-autonomy
- docassemble-webapp
- web-poet
- starlite
- backend-ai-client
- taegis-sdk-python
- async-retriever
- pygeoogc
- backend-ai-webserver
- aiointercept
- opengeodeweb-viewer
- backend-ai-common
- aio-api-github
- crc-bonfire
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GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache License 2.0
First Release
February 19, 2016
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
6.7.1
Total Releases
149
Contributors
93
Open PRs
22
Archived
No
Author
Andrew Svetlov
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
cp310
cp311
cp312
cp313
cp314
cp34
cp35
cp36
cp37
cp38
cp39
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh