No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pygithub has 86.7M monthly downloads and 8K GitHub stars. Version 2.9.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2012.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Apr 2026.
It is built on top of pyjwt, pynacl and requests. It is used by 1,066 tracked packages, including azure-cli, openhands-ai and comfyui-manager.
GitHub topics include pygithub, github and github-api.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
84
Adoption
70
Community
90
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
20 days ago
Monthly downloads
86,733,976
•
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
86,733,976
Stars
7,740
Stars per 1k downloads
0.09
•
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
2,610,072
Month daily avg
2,891,133
Momentum
-9.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
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
83 days ago
Total releases
109
Releases/year
7.6
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
398
Monthly downloads
86,733,976
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
98
Issue Burden
36.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
10.3
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
63d
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
1.9M
Windows
24.5K
macOS
12.2K
Python Versions
3.10
36.5%
651.3K
3.13
30.9%
551.9K
3.11
13.9%
247.3K
3.12
13.3%
237.7K
3.14
5.4%
96.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
1.7M
US
2.
IE
30.4K
IE
3.
SG
27.7K
SG
4.
DE
24.1K
DE
5.
GB
19.4K
GB
6.
NL
16.6K
NL
7.
JP
6.7K
JP
8.
IN
5.5K
IN
9.
AU
5.4K
AU
10.
FR
4.4K
FR
Dependencies
5
- pyjwt >=2.4.0
- pynacl >=1.4.0
- requests >=2.14.0
- typing-extensions >=4.5.0
- urllib3 >=1.26.0
Used By
1066
- azure-cli
- openhands-ai
- comfyui-manager
- apache-airflow-providers-github
- metagit-cli
- prowler
- dataengine
- airbyte-internal-ops
- pr-commenter
- db-contrib-tool
- demisto-sdk
- spyder
- bar-raiser
- siliconcompiler
- ledgered
- recce
- cpex
- galaxy-release-util
- pr-agent
- qontract-reconcile
- gftools
- lookml
- pkdevtools
- ultimate-hosts-blacklist-test-launcher
- multi-swe-bench
- pysealer
- changelist
- langroid
- trinitty
- benchmark-runner
- mage-ai
- nf-core
- rocm-docs-core
- infrahouse-toolkit
- optunahub
- rellu
- recce-nightly
- ogr
- lftools
- infrahouse-core
- codegen
- redisbench-admin
- mtmlib
- cloud-governance
- devsecops-engine-tools
- sphinx-lua-ls
- briar-cli
- ghworkspace
- prowler-cloud
- github2gerrit
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)
First Release
February 19, 2012
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.9.1
Total Releases
109
Contributors
398
Open PRs
123
Archived
No
Python Versions
3
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh