No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pip-api has 22M monthly downloads and 120 GitHub stars. Version 0.0.34 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2018.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2024.
It is built on top of pip. It is used by 13 tracked packages, including pip-audit, fontbakery and pytest-reqs.
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 711 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
41
Adoption
80
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
15 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,959,163
•
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
21,959,163
Stars
120
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
•
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
746,907
Month daily avg
731,972
Momentum
+2.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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 Software License
•
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
727 days ago
Total releases
30
Releases/year
3.6
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
11
Monthly downloads
21,959,163
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
43
Issue Burden
108.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
61.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
711d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
570.5K
Windows
7.4K
macOS
5.8K
Python Versions
3.12
45.2%
260.4K
3.11
26.0%
149.7K
3.13
17.6%
101.1K
3.14
9.4%
53.9K
3.10
1.9%
10.7K
Top Countries
1.
US
480.7K
US
2.
DE
48.5K
DE
3.
NL
10.1K
NL
4.
JP
8.5K
JP
5.
AU
5.5K
AU
6.
GB
5.3K
GB
7.
FR
3.1K
FR
8.
SE
2.2K
SE
9.
IE
1.7K
IE
10.
IN
1.6K
IN
Dependencies
1
Package Information
License
Apache Software License
First Release
March 20, 2018
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
0.0.34
Total Releases
30
Contributors
11
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Dustin Ingram
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh