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requests-aws4auth

Amazon Web Services version 4 authentication for the Python Requests module
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

requests-aws4auth has 46.3M monthly downloads and 190 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.2 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2015.

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

It is built on top of requests. It is used by 82 tracked packages, including ddapm-test-agent, openmetadata-ingestion and opensearch-mcp-server-py.

Downloads
Day
1.6M
Week
11.3M
Month
46.3M
Stars
190
Forks
63
Issues
17
Version
1.3.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
70
Popularity
49
Adoption
80
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
66 days ago
Monthly downloads
46,291,183
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
46,291,183
Stars
190
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
1,612,603
Month daily avg
1,543,039
Momentum
+4.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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 License
• 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
66 days ago
Total releases
19
Releases/year
1.7
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
14
Monthly downloads
46,291,183
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
55
 
Issue Burden
89.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
22.2%
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 1.3M
macOS 1.3K
Windows 782

Python Versions

3.9
39.8% 515.8K
3.7
29.4% 381.1K
3.10
13.0% 168.9K
3.11
11.2% 145.6K
3.12
6.5% 84.8K

Top Countries

1. US US
1.1M
2. IE IE
52.6K
3. FR FR
38.1K
4. BR BR
35.9K
5. JP JP
26.2K
6. DE DE
19.2K
7. AU AU
12.7K
8. SG SG
10.3K
9. KR KR
7.2K
10. IN IN
6.9K

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
March 7, 2015
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
1.3.2
Total Releases
19
Contributors
14
Open PRs
2
Archived
No
Author
Ted Timmons
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
requests authentication amazon web services aws s3 REST
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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