No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
niquests has 2.1M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.20.0 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2023.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of charset-normalizer, urllib3-future and wassima. It is used by 121 tracked packages, including caldav, nc-py-api and openmeteo-requests.
GitHub topics include http, http-client and http2.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- High bus factor: only 1 contributor(s) for this download volume
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
10
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
10 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,132,280
•
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
2,132,280
Stars
2,392
Stars per 1k downloads
1.12
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
61,679
Month daily avg
71,076
Momentum
-13.2%
((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
Apache-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
10 days ago
Total releases
86
Releases/year
30.1
•
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
1
Monthly downloads
2,132,280
•
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
13
Issue Burden
0.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
1.9%
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
46.3K
Windows
2.8K
macOS
685
Python Versions
3.11
38.6%
19.0K
3.12
22.1%
10.9K
3.14
21.8%
10.7K
3.13
13.8%
6.8K
3.10
3.6%
1.8K
Top Countries
1.
US
30.8K
US
2.
DE
4.2K
DE
3.
NL
3.7K
NL
4.
AU
1.0K
AU
5.
IE
952
IE
6.
IT
834
IT
7.
GB
792
GB
8.
FR
613
FR
9.
IN
612
IN
10.
BR
404
BR
Dependencies
3
- charset-normalizer <4,>=2
- urllib3-future <3,>=2.13.903
- wassima <3,>=1.0.1
12 optional dependencies
- orjson[speedups]
- orjson[full]
- urllib3-future[http3]
- urllib3-future[ocsp]
- urllib3-future[rtls]
- urllib3-future[socks]
- urllib3-future[brotli]
- urllib3-future[utls]
- urllib3-future[ws]
- urllib3-future[zstd]
- urllib3-future[speedups]
- urllib3-future[full]
Used By
121
- caldav
- nc-py-api
- openmeteo-requests
- grafana-client
- translators
- fs-onedrivefs
- seam
- imdbinfo
- ipfabric
- homeassistant-api
- tilebox-storage
- qqmusic-api-python
- ipfabric-netbox
- niquests-mock
- aniworld
- datagouv-client
- redivis
- ozi-core
- mrx-aniworld
- ozi-templates
- syvain-metrics-api-client
- syvain-metrics-collector
- niquests-cache
- libonvif
- kadi-apy
- photobooth-app
- datadog-slo-overrides-cli
- deckz
- libreclient
- vsview-comp
- ansible-aap-api-client
- ffmpeg-update
- waifuboard
- modelstash
- tile-renderer
- deltona
- deluge-web-client
- wiswa-vcs
- streamshatter
- wiswa
- padwan-llm
- certora-cloud
- cosma-client
- obitrain
- douyin-cli
- pretix-uic-barcode
- scraken
- pytailwindcss-extra
- docassemblecli3
- mirmod
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
August 29, 2023
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.20.0
Total Releases
86
Contributors
1
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh