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pika

pika

Pure Python RabbitMQ/AMQP 0-9-1 client library
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pika has 15.1M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 1.4.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2010.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is used by 606 tracked packages, including pycti, fedora-messaging and utf-queue-client.

GitHub topics include rabbitmq, client and amqp0-9-1.

Downloads
Day
392.6K
Week
3.2M
Month
15.1M
Stars
3.9K
Forks
847
Issues
34
Version
1.4.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
79
Adoption
70
Community
85
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
11 days ago
Monthly downloads
15,083,464
• 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
15,083,464
Stars
3,870
Stars per 1k downloads
0.26
• 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
462,080
Month daily avg
502,782
Momentum
-8.1%
((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
BSD-3-Clause
• 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
46 days ago
Total releases
49
Releases/year
3.1
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
183
Monthly downloads
15,083,464
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
93
 
Issue Burden
8.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
16.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.6%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 249.3K
Windows 1.9K
macOS 687

Python Versions

3.12
46.2% 105.3K
3.13
21.7% 49.4K
3.11
17.7% 40.3K
3.10
7.5% 17.1K
3.9
7.0% 16.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
120.1K
2. FI FI
35.6K
3. FR FR
17.9K
4. GB GB
11.7K
5. NL NL
9.9K
6. IE IE
9.8K
7. DE DE
7.6K
8. IN IN
6.0K
9. ID ID
5.8K
10. HK HK
3.8K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-3-Clause
First Release
July 1, 2010
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.4.1
Total Releases
49
Contributors
183
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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