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pyspnego

Python SPNEGO authentication library
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

pyspnego has 21.4M monthly downloads and 66 GitHub stars. Version 0.12.1 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2020.

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

It is built on top of cryptography and sspilib. It is used by 29 tracked packages, including requests-ntlm, smbprotocol and requests-kerberos.

Downloads
Day
709.0K
Week
5.0M
Month
21.4M
Stars
66
Forks
14
Issues
0
Version
0.12.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
65
Popularity
37
Adoption
70
Community
30
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
127 days ago
Monthly downloads
21,377,632
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
21,377,632
Stars
66
Stars per 1k downloads
0.00
• 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
707,558
Month daily avg
712,588
Momentum
-0.7%
((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
127 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
6.3
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
8
Monthly downloads
21,377,632
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
37
 
Issue Burden
-
per 1k stars
Discussions
-
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
57.1%
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 562.5K
Windows 7.0K
macOS 1.1K

Python Versions

3.10
42.0% 225.8K
3.12
28.7% 154.2K
3.11
18.8% 101.1K
3.13
5.5% 29.5K
3.14
5.1% 27.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
403.6K
2. NL NL
70.6K
3. IE IE
22.0K
4. BR BR
11.4K
5. DE DE
9.4K
6. AU AU
8.9K
7. IN IN
8.2K
8. CA CA
7.6K
9. HK HK
5.8K
10. GB GB
3.4K

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
July 4, 2020
Last Release
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
0.12.1
Total Releases
38
Contributors
8
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp35 cp36 cp37 cp38 cp39 py2 py3
Keywords
windows spnego negotiate ntlm kerberos sspi gssapi auth
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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