PyRank
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python-jose

A JOSE implementation in Python
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

python-jose has 46.1M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 3.5.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2015.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2025.

It is built on top of ecdsa, pyasn1 and rsa. It is used by 1,056 tracked packages, including open-webui, django-esi and pyattest.

GitHub topics include jose and jwt.

Downloads
Day
1.4M
Week
9.6M
Month
46.1M
Stars
1.8K
Forks
264
Issues
94
Version
3.5.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
69
Adoption
60
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
404 days ago
Monthly downloads
46,144,402
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
46,144,402
Stars
1,753
Stars per 1k downloads
0.04
• 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
1,373,328
Month daily avg
1,538,147
Momentum
-10.7%
((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
404 days ago
Total releases
38
Releases/year
3.4
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
56
Monthly downloads
46,144,402
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
65
 
Issue Burden
53.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
21.2%
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 866.4K
Windows 21.3K
macOS 9.8K

Python Versions

3.12
39.3% 337.6K
3.11
34.8% 299.5K
3.13
13.9% 119.2K
3.14
7.0% 60.0K
3.10
5.1% 43.6K

Top Countries

1. US US
655.7K
2. DE DE
36.6K
3. IN IN
29.5K
4. IE IE
22.8K
5. SG SG
21.3K
6. JP JP
10.5K
7. NL NL
10.0K
8. FR FR
9.6K
9. HK HK
7.9K
10. BR BR
7.4K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
April 22, 2015
Last Release
1 year ago
Last Commit
1 year ago
Latest Version
3.5.0
Total Releases
38
Contributors
56
Open PRs
20
Archived
No
Author
Michael Davis
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
jose jws jwe jwt json web token security signing
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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