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python-socks

Core proxy client (SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP) functionality for Python
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Download Stats
Monthly downloads
6.0M
Weekly downloads
1.4M
GitHub stars
129

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
3.1.1
Requires Python
>=3.9.0
Licence
Apache-2.0
Last Release
1 month ago
First Release
September 20, 2020
Total Releases
40
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
44
Adoption
80
Community
30
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
37 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,988,212
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
5,988,212
Stars
129
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
206,062
Month daily avg
199,607
Momentum
+3.2%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9.0
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 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
37 days ago
Total releases
40
Releases/year
6.6
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
8
Monthly downloads
5,988,212
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
25.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 111.5K
Windows 7.6K
macOS 2.7K

Python Versions

3.12
32.7% 38.9K
3.14
27.3% 32.5K
3.11
21.2% 25.3K
3.13
15.7% 18.7K
3.10
3.1% 3.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
88.7K
2. NL NL
4.3K
3. DE DE
4.3K
4. RU RU
2.9K
5. FR FR
2.6K
6. SG SG
2.2K
7. CN CN
1.5K
8. EE EE
1.3K
9. JP JP
1.1K
10. HK HK
1.1K

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
3 optional dependencies
  • anyio<5.0.0,>=4.12.1[anyio]
    extra == "anyio"
  • async-timeout>=5.0.1[asyncio]
    python_version < "3.11" and extra == "asyncio"
  • trio>=0.30.0[trio]
    extra == "trio"

Used By

192
View all 192 dependents

Repository details

Forks
31
Issues
0
Last Commit
1 month ago
Contributors
8
Open PRs
0
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
socks socks5 socks4 http proxy asyncio trio anyio
Sources and methodology