PyRank
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sshtunnel

SSH tunnels to remote server.
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

sshtunnel has 26.6M monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 0.4.0, first published in 2014.

It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2021.

It is used by 163 tracked packages, including azure-cli, apache-superset and dagster-ssh.

GitHub topics include tunnel and ssh.

Downloads
Day
906.1K
Week
6.1M
Month
26.6M
Stars
1.3K
Forks
202
Issues
60
Version
0.4.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
66
Adoption
70
Community
60
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
313 days ago
Monthly downloads
26,562,635
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
26,562,635
Stars
1,292
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
868,196
Month daily avg
885,421
Momentum
-1.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
MIT
• 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
2002 days ago
Total releases
28
Releases/year
2.3
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
24
Monthly downloads
26,562,635
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
60
 
Issue Burden
46.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1689d
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 704.5K
Windows 10.7K
macOS 424

Python Versions

3.11
56.7% 388.1K
3.12
19.8% 135.9K
3.10
16.6% 113.8K
3.13
3.4% 23.6K
3.7
3.4% 23.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
357.8K
2. IE IE
56.4K
3. DE DE
28.5K
4. IN IN
23.5K
5. AU AU
22.9K
6. JP JP
22.6K
7. KR KR
19.0K
8. CA CA
18.1K
9. SG SG
17.7K
10. GB GB
14.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
June 12, 2014
Last Release
5 years ago
Last Commit
10 months ago
Latest Version
0.4.0
Total Releases
28
Contributors
24
Open PRs
21
Archived
No
Author
Pahaz White
Python Versions
2 2.7 3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
ssh tunnel paramiko proxy tcp-forward
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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