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requests-cache

requests-cache

Persistent HTTP cache for python requests
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Verified repo
Monthly downloads
4.4M
Weekly downloads
929.9K
GitHub stars
1.5K

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

Package Information

Latest Version
1.3.3
Requires Python
>=3.8
Licence
BSD-2-Clause
Last Release
3 months ago
Author
Jordan Cook, Roman Haritonov
First Release
April 10, 2012
Total Releases
98
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
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
100
Popularity
66
Adoption
60
Community
60
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
6 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,425,674
• 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
4,425,674
Stars
1,506
Stars per 1k downloads
0.34
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
132,838
Month daily avg
147,522
Momentum
-10.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
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
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
104 days ago
Total releases
98
Releases/year
6.7
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
67
Monthly downloads
4,425,674
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
67
 
Issue Burden
13.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
10.6
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
40.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
98d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 81.6K
Windows 2.6K
macOS 2.4K

Python Versions

3.12
35.8% 28.1K
3.11
20.6% 16.2K
3.10
18.1% 14.2K
3.13
14.8% 11.6K
3.14
10.7% 8.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
73.1K
2. DE DE
2.0K
3. SG SG
1.6K
4. IE IE
1.5K
5. GB GB
999
6. NL NL
997
7. FI FI
985
8. FR FR
799
9. IN IN
776
10. CA CA
562

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

6
14 optional dependencies
  • boto3>=1.15[dynamodb]
    extra == "dynamodb"
  • boto3>=1.15[all]
    extra == "all"
  • botocore>=1.18[all]
    extra == "all"
  • botocore>=1.18[dynamodb]
    extra == "dynamodb"
  • itsdangerous>=2.0[all]
    extra == "all"
  • itsdangerous>=2.0[security]
    extra == "security"
  • orjson>=3.0[all]
    python_version < "3.14" and extra == "all"
  • pymongo>=3[mongodb]
    extra == "mongodb"
  • pymongo>=3[all]
    extra == "all"
  • pyyaml>=6.0.1[all]
    extra == "all"
  • pyyaml>=6.0.1[yaml]
    extra == "yaml"
  • redis>=3[redis]
    extra == "redis"
  • redis>=3[all]
    extra == "all"
  • ujson>=5.4[all]
    extra == "all"

Used By

509
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Repository details

Forks
166
Issues
20
Last Commit
6 days ago
Contributors
67
Open PRs
3
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
cache dynamodb http http-client mongodb performance python-requests redis requests sqlite web webscraping
Sources and methodology