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pyjwt

JSON Web Token implementation in Python
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyjwt has 642.9M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 2.13.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2011.

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

It is built on top of typing-extensions. It is used by 4,833 tracked packages, including mcp, msal and snowflake-connector-python.

GitHub topics include jwt.

Downloads
Day
21.5M
Week
154.4M
Month
642.9M
Stars
5.7K
Forks
767
Issues
39
Version
2.13.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
81
Adoption
80
Community
80
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
46 days ago
Monthly downloads
642,869,934
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
642,869,934
Stars
5,670
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
22,058,342
Month daily avg
21,428,998
Momentum
+2.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
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
46 days ago
Total releases
55
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
163
Monthly downloads
642,869,934
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
79
 
Issue Burden
6.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
2.1
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.3%
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 15.8M
Windows 738.9K
macOS 171.7K

Python Versions

3.12
41.6% 6.3M
3.11
20.8% 3.1M
3.13
17.1% 2.6M
3.10
15.9% 2.4M
3.14
4.6% 689.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
13.2M
2. SG SG
429.9K
3. NL NL
419.2K
4. IE IE
411.5K
5. DE DE
360.7K
6. GB GB
317.0K
7. IN IN
242.7K
8. CA CA
146.4K
9. JP JP
142.5K
10. AU AU
124.2K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
February 24, 2011
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 month ago
Latest Version
2.13.0
Total Releases
55
Contributors
163
Open PRs
25
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
json jwt security signing token web
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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