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requests-kerberos

An authentication handler for using Kerberos with 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-kerberos has 5.8M monthly downloads and 306 GitHub stars. Version 0.15.0 supports Python 3.6+, first published in 2013.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2024.

It is built on top of cryptography, pyspnego and requests. It is used by 49 tracked packages, including dipex, sparkmagic and packitos.

GitHub topics include python-requests and kerberos-authentication.

Downloads
Day
188.1K
Week
1.4M
Month
5.8M
Stars
306
Forks
99
Issues
9
Version
0.15.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
54
Adoption
80
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
763 days ago
Monthly downloads
5,814,814
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
5,814,814
Stars
306
Stars per 1k downloads
0.05
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
194,463
Month daily avg
193,827
Momentum
+0.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.6
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
ISC 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
763 days ago
Total releases
17
Releases/year
1.3
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
36
Monthly downloads
5,814,814
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
64
 
Issue Burden
29.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
36.4%
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 175.8K
Windows 443
macOS 47

Python Versions

3.10
39.5% 69.1K
3.12
16.3% 28.5K
3.11
16.2% 28.3K
3.13
14.6% 25.5K
3.14
13.4% 23.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
173.9K
2. IE IE
452
3. SG SG
322
4. BE BE
321
5. DE DE
169
6. GB GB
160
7. KR KR
154
8. CA CA
152
9. FR FR
150
10. AU AU
137
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
ISC License
First Release
March 26, 2013
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
0.15.0
Total Releases
17
Contributors
36
Open PRs
3
Archived
No
Author
Ian Cordasco, Cory Benfield, Michael Komitee
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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