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taverntesting

tavern

A command-line tool and Python library and Pytest plugin for automated testing of RESTful APIs, with a simple, concise and flexible YAML-based syntax
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

tavern has 304K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 3.6.1 supports Python 3.11+, first published in 2017.

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

It is built on top of jmespath, jsonschema and pyjwt. It is used by 4 tracked packages, including pybuilder-integration, nbsapi-verify and tavern-aws.

GitHub topics include pytest, testing and test-automation.

Downloads
Day
8.8K
Week
67.1K
Month
303.7K
Stars
1.1K
Forks
200
Issues
15
Version
3.6.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
65
Adoption
64
Community
65
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
303,672
• 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
303,672
Stars
1,141
Stars per 1k downloads
3.76
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
9,589
Month daily avg
10,122
Momentum
-5.3%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.11
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
MIT 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
22 days ago
Total releases
221
Releases/year
25.5
• 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
64
Monthly downloads
303,672
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
13.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
32.0%
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 5.8K
Windows 17
macOS 3

Python Versions

3.8
62.4% 3.3K
3.12
15.1% 805
3.10
10.0% 531
3.11
9.4% 503
3.9
3.2% 170

Top Countries

1. US US
4.8K
2. DE DE
488
3. SG SG
208
4. IE IE
131
5. JP JP
112
6. NL NL
79
7. SE SE
20
8. CN CN
7
9. IN IN
3
10. CA CA
2

Dependencies

10
10 optional dependencies

Used By

4
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT License
First Release
November 8, 2017
Last Release
3 weeks ago
Last Commit
5 days ago
Latest Version
3.6.1
Total Releases
221
Contributors
64
Open PRs
5
Archived
No
Author
Michael Boulton
Python Versions
3 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
testing pytest
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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