PyRank
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python-socks

Core proxy client (SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP) functionality for 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.

python-socks has 5.8M monthly downloads and 125 GitHub stars. Version 2.8.2 supports Python 3.8.0+, first published in 2020.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is used by 160 tracked packages, including aiohttp-socks, httpx-socks and websockets-proxy.

GitHub topics include socks, socks5 and socks4.

Downloads
Day
236.3K
Week
1.6M
Month
5.8M
Stars
125
Forks
30
Issues
0
Version
2.8.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
44
Adoption
100
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,833,056
• 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
5,833,056
Stars
125
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
234,129
Month daily avg
194,435
Momentum
+20.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8.0
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
Apache-2.0
• 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
13 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
6.4
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
8
Monthly downloads
5,833,056
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
40
 
Issue Burden
0.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
26.7%
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 107.7K
Windows 30.1K
macOS 16.5K

Python Versions

3.11
44.6% 68.1K
3.12
24.9% 38.0K
3.13
17.6% 26.9K
3.14
6.5% 9.9K
3.10
6.4% 9.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
88.0K
2. CN CN
7.1K
3. DE DE
6.4K
4. JP JP
4.3K
5. SG SG
3.9K
6. HK HK
3.6K
7. KR KR
3.6K
8. CA CA
3.3K
9. NL NL
3.2K
10. RU RU
3.0K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
September 20, 2020
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
2.8.2
Total Releases
37
Contributors
8
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
socks socks5 socks4 http proxy asyncio trio curio anyio
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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