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requests-pkcs12

Add PKCS#12 support to the Python requests library in a clean way, without monkey patching or temporary files
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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-pkcs12 has 1.2M monthly downloads and 128 GitHub stars. Version 1.27 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2017.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Sep 2025.

It is built on top of cryptography and requests. It is used by 30 tracked packages, including git-dumper, clear-s2s and ravendb.

GitHub topics include https-client, https-certificate and pkcs12.

Downloads
Day
37.3K
Week
279.0K
Month
1.2M
Stars
128
Forks
35
Issues
1
Version
1.27

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
45
Adoption
70
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
302 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,223,814
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
1,223,814
Stars
128
Stars per 1k downloads
0.10
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
39,852
Month daily avg
40,794
Momentum
-2.3%
((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
ISC
• 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
302 days ago
Total releases
36
Releases/year
4.2
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
16
Monthly downloads
1,223,814
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
46
 
Issue Burden
7.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
45.7%
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 26.9K
Windows 152
macOS 34

Python Versions

3.12
56.4% 14.2K
3.11
23.5% 5.9K
3.10
11.1% 2.8K
3.13
4.8% 1.2K
3.9
4.2% 1.0K

Top Countries

1. US US
14.7K
2. IE IE
2.5K
3. NL NL
2.2K
4. DE DE
1.6K
5. IN IN
974
6. SG SG
852
7. AU AU
464
8. BR BR
361
9. BE BE
347
10. ID ID
293
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
ISC
First Release
December 4, 2017
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
1.27
Total Releases
36
Contributors
16
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Author
Volker Diels-Grabsch
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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