No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
prawcore has 1.7M monthly downloads and 27 GitHub stars. Version 4.0.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of requests. It is used by 12 tracked packages, including praw, flowtask and reddit-mcp.
GitHub topics include oauth, praw and prawcore.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
35
Adoption
60
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,741,218
•
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
1,741,218
Stars
27
Stars per 1k downloads
0.02
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
49,973
Month daily avg
58,041
Momentum
-13.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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 2-Clause 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
23 days ago
Total releases
51
Releases/year
4.9
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
19
Monthly downloads
1,741,218
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
47
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
52.8%
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
41.3K
macOS
971
Windows
735
Python Versions
3.11
38.5%
15.6K
3.12
29.2%
11.9K
3.10
13.5%
5.5K
3.14
12.4%
5.0K
3.13
6.4%
2.6K
Top Countries
1.
US
38.1K
US
2.
BE
1.0K
BE
3.
IE
953
IE
4.
NL
517
NL
5.
DE
467
DE
6.
IN
334
IN
7.
SG
302
SG
8.
CN
176
CN
9.
HK
146
HK
10.
FR
108
FR
Dependencies
1
- requests <3.0,>=2.34.2
Package Information
License
BSD 2-Clause License
First Release
February 22, 2016
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
4.0.0
Total Releases
51
Contributors
19
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
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