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responses

A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

responses has 67.9M monthly downloads and 4K GitHub stars. Version 0.26.2 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2013.

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

It is built on top of pyyaml, requests and urllib3. It is used by 226 tracked packages, including moto, pycarlo and genai-perf.

GitHub topics include tag-production.

Downloads
Day
1.8M
Week
14.2M
Month
67.9M
Stars
4.3K
Forks
370
Issues
28
Version
0.26.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
76
Adoption
60
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
67,878,177
• 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
67,878,177
Stars
4,346
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
2,026,278
Month daily avg
2,262,606
Momentum
-10.4%
((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
Apache-2.0
• 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
64
Releases/year
5.1
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
378
Monthly downloads
67,878,177
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
61
 
Issue Burden
6.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
102.2%
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 992.8K
Windows 5.7K
macOS 5.6K

Python Versions

3.12
33.9% 316.7K
3.11
22.8% 213.0K
3.13
19.7% 184.3K
3.10
15.2% 142.0K
3.14
8.5% 79.5K

Top Countries

1. US US
768.2K
2. GB GB
58.0K
3. SG SG
51.7K
4. IE IE
35.2K
5. DE DE
25.5K
6. CA CA
9.5K
7. JP JP
9.2K
8. IN IN
6.6K
9. BR BR
5.5K
10. NL NL
4.7K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
Apache-2.0
First Release
November 25, 2013
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
0.26.2
Total Releases
64
Contributors
378
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
David Cramer
Python Versions
3 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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