PyRank
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niquests

Drop-in replacement for Requests. Automatic HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3. WebSocket, and SSE included.
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
64.8K
Week
534.1K
Month
2.7M
Stars
2.3K
Forks
52
Issues
2
Version
3.18.8

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
64
Adoption
60
Community
10
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,725,889
• 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
2,725,889
Stars
2,326
Stars per 1k downloads
0.85
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
76,303
Month daily avg
90,863
Momentum
-16.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
12 days ago
Total releases
83
Releases/year
30.4
• 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
2,725,889
• 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
0.9
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 64.1K
Windows 1.7K
macOS 650

Python Versions

3.11
63.6% 42.0K
3.12
16.3% 10.7K
3.13
11.9% 7.9K
3.14
6.2% 4.1K
3.10
2.1% 1.4K

Top Countries

1. DE DE
24.5K
2. US US
22.8K
3. LT LT
6.2K
4. SG SG
4.6K
5. NL NL
3.6K
6. GB GB
970
7. IE IE
663
8. CN CN
440
9. FR FR
296
10. RU RU
234

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
August 29, 2023
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.18.8
Total Releases
83
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
QUIC crl dns-over-https dns-over-quic dns-over-tls dnssec doh doq dot http http client http/1.1 http2 http3 https multiplexed ocsp requests revocation sse tls websocket
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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