Monthly downloads
5.1M
Weekly downloads
1.1M
GitHub stars
19
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
BSD - See ndg/httpsclient/LICENCE file for details
Last Release
8 years ago
Author
Richard Wilkinson and Philip Kershaw
First Release
January 17, 2012
Total Releases
13
Python Versions
2
2.7
3
3.4
3.5
3.6
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
31
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
205 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,069,188
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
5,069,188
Stars
19
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
164,104
Month daily avg
168,973
Momentum
-2.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
•
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
BSD - See ndg/httpsclient/LICENCE file for details
•
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
3006 days ago
Total releases
13
Releases/year
0.9
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
12
Monthly downloads
5,069,188
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
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
57.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2801d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
44.4K
Windows
25.9K
macOS
148
Python Versions
3.13
43.8%
27.9K
3.12
32.1%
20.4K
3.10
10.9%
6.9K
3.11
10.1%
6.4K
3.9
3.0%
1.9K
Top Countries
1.
US
61.7K
US
2.
NL
2.7K
NL
3.
IE
2.3K
IE
4.
IN
761
IN
5.
TW
597
TW
6.
DE
471
DE
7.
SG
433
SG
8.
JP
291
JP
9.
CA
273
CA
10.
BE
263
BE
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
28
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Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh