No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
simple-salesforce has 31M monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 1.12.9 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Aug 2025.
It is built on top of more-itertools, pyjwt and requests. It is used by 98 tracked packages, including apache-airflow-providers-salesforce, rpaframework and cumulusci.
GitHub topics include salesforce, api and api-client.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
74
Adoption
80
Community
100
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
317 days ago
Monthly downloads
31,007,569
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
31,007,569
Stars
1,882
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
1,053,068
Month daily avg
1,033,586
Momentum
+1.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.9
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
317 days ago
Total releases
50
Releases/year
3.7
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
118
Monthly downloads
31,007,569
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
80
Issue Burden
104.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
16.3%
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
780.9K
Windows
855
macOS
347
Python Versions
3.11
35.5%
250.8K
3.10
31.5%
223.0K
3.12
19.6%
139.0K
3.9
7.0%
49.5K
3.13
6.4%
45.2K
Top Countries
1.
US
582.8K
US
2.
NL
59.8K
NL
3.
DE
43.1K
DE
4.
IE
23.6K
IE
5.
BR
20.9K
BR
6.
SG
9.8K
SG
7.
JP
9.3K
JP
8.
IN
9.0K
IN
9.
CA
7.5K
CA
10.
GB
7.2K
GB
Dependencies
5
- more-itertools
- pyjwt
- requests >=2.22.0
- typing-extensions
- zeep
17 optional dependencies
- black[format]
- coverage[test]
- cryptography[test]
- flake8[format]
- flake8-docstrings[format]
- isort[format]
- mypy[lint]
- pre-commit[dev]
- pylint[lint]
- pytest[test]
- pytest-cov[test]
- pytz[test]
- responses[test]
- simple-salesforce[dev]
- tox[dev]
- types-pytz[lint]
- types-requests[lint]
Used By
98
- apache-airflow-providers-salesforce
- rpaframework
- cumulusci
- querysource
- regscale-cli
- tmg-data
- cumulusci-plus
- tendenci
- thirdai
- viadot2
- easier
- pancham
- plurally
- omniload
- superagentx-handlers
- hrflow-connectors
- mcp-salesforce-connector
- grove
- langchain-salesforce
- sfdc-bulk
- agentforce-sdk
- wrangles
- llama-index-tools-salesforce
- vector-etl
- django-s3-csv-2-sfdc
- dagster-salesforce
- thegooseforce
- clariti-cumulusci
- kicksaw-integration-utils
- seed-salesforce
- sellpath-test
- brahm-centre-utils
- aisquare-pipe-salesforce
- cmem-plugin-salesforce
- amaxa
- salesforce-spark-connector
- salesforce-mcp-server
- dataops-salesforce-bulk
- a-piece-of-shit
- mseep-mcp-salesforce-connector
- ssutils
- maluforce
- cumulusci-extended
- orange3-salesforce
- vd-dlt-salesforce-schema
- groclake
- salesforce-dbsync
- mcptoolkit
- mcp-salesforce
- ntcumulusci
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Apache-2.0
First Release
January 22, 2013
Last Release
10 months ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
1.12.9
Total Releases
50
Contributors
118
Open PRs
43
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
Wheels
py2
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh