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pkce

Simple Python module to generate PKCE code verifier and code challenge
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pkce has 3.1M monthly downloads and 29 GitHub stars. Version 1.0.3 supports Python 3+, first published in 2020.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Feb 2021.

It is used by 46 tracked packages, including nvidia-nat-core, supertokens-python and db-contrib-tool.

Downloads
Day
65.8K
Week
588.0K
Month
3.1M
Stars
29
Forks
2
Issues
0
Version
1.0.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
10
Popularity
25
Adoption
60
Community
0
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1974 days ago
Monthly downloads
3,093,172
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
3,093,172
Stars
29
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
83,999
Month daily avg
103,106
Momentum
-18.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3
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
MIT
• 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
1974 days ago
Total releases
4
Releases/year
0.6
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
4
Monthly downloads
3,093,172
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
19
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
200.0%
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 21.6K
Windows 786
macOS 535

Python Versions

3.12
26.7% 3.1K
3.10
26.2% 3.0K
3.14
20.6% 2.4K
3.11
16.7% 1.9K
3.13
9.8% 1.1K

Top Countries

1. US US
21.1K
2. GB GB
385
3. NL NL
385
4. IN IN
122
5. PA PA
111
6. DE DE
85
7. SE SE
65
8. ZA ZA
64
9. SG SG
63
10. IE IE
59

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
January 31, 2020
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
5 years ago
Latest Version
1.0.3
Total Releases
4
Contributors
4
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Roméo Després
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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