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ndg-httpsclient

HTTPS client implementation for httplib and urllib2 based on PyOpenSSL
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

ndg-httpsclient has 6.9M monthly downloads and 19 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.1, first published in 2012.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2018.

It is used by 29 tracked packages, including pusher, azureml-core and advocate.

Downloads
Day
201.1K
Week
1.5M
Month
6.9M
Stars
19
Forks
21
Issues
4
Version
0.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
31
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
104 days ago
Monthly downloads
6,860,797
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
6,860,797
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
214,781
Month daily avg
228,693
Momentum
-6.1%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
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
2905 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
24
Monthly downloads
6,860,797
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
55
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
114.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
2801d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 63.1K
Windows 11.5K
macOS 126

Python Versions

3.11
27.5% 18.8K
3.13
22.8% 15.6K
3.12
22.6% 15.4K
3.10
21.4% 14.7K
3.9
5.7% 3.9K

Top Countries

1. US US
55.2K
2. IE IE
6.4K
3. NL NL
6.4K
4. IN IN
1.5K
5. TW TW
1.2K
6. SG SG
852
7. DE DE
710
8. HK HK
384
9. GB GB
336
10. ES ES
260

Package Information

License
BSD - See ndg/httpsclient/LICENCE file for details
First Release
January 17, 2012
Last Release
7 years ago
Last Commit
3 months ago
Latest Version
0.5.1
Total Releases
13
Contributors
24
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Richard Wilkinson and Philip Kershaw
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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