PyRank
requests-cache

requests-cache

Persistent HTTP cache for python requests
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

requests-cache has 26.1M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.3.3 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2012.

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

It is built on top of attrs, cattrs and platformdirs. It is used by 494 tracked packages, including fastf1, airbyte-cdk and shillelagh.

GitHub topics include cache, dynamodb and http.

Downloads
Day
908.9K
Week
8.8M
Month
26.1M
Stars
1.5K
Forks
160
Issues
21
Version
1.3.3

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
66
Adoption
100
Community
50
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
26,064,394
• 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
26,064,394
Stars
1,495
Stars per 1k downloads
0.06
• 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
1,254,095
Month daily avg
868,813
Momentum
+44.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
BSD-2-Clause
• 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
3 days ago
Total releases
98
Releases/year
6.9
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
67
Monthly downloads
26,064,394
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
14.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
11.4
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
41.9%
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 996.6K
Windows 4.8K
macOS 4.7K

Python Versions

3.13
90.9% 904.0K
3.11
3.7% 36.4K
3.12
2.9% 29.2K
3.10
1.7% 16.7K
3.14
0.8% 8.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
980.9K
2. IE IE
4.5K
3. GB GB
3.9K
4. SG SG
2.8K
5. NL NL
2.2K
6. DE DE
2.2K
7. IN IN
1.4K
8. FR FR
1.1K
9. RU RU
914
10. CN CN
877
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
April 10, 2012
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
2 days ago
Latest Version
1.3.3
Total Releases
98
Contributors
67
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Jordan Cook, Roman Haritonov
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
cache dynamodb http http-client mongodb performance python-requests redis requests sqlite web webscraping
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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