vcrpy

Monthly downloads

21.3M

Weekly downloads

4.8M

GitHub stars *

3.0K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version

8.3.0

Requires Python

>=3.10

Licence

MIT

Last Release

3 months ago

Author

Kevin McCarthy

First Release

February 22, 2013

Total Releases

Python Versions

3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13

No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?

Package Risks

No releases in 101 days despite active commits

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage

Maintenance

100

Popularity

Adoption

Community

Provenance

How the maintenance status was determined

Last commit

2 days ago

Monthly downloads

21,254,741

• 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

21,254,741

Stars

3,021

Stars per 1k downloads

0.14

• 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

685,394

Month daily avg

708,491

Momentum

-3.3%

((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100

More insights and metrics

Python version support tiers

requires_python

>=3.10

Cutting Edge

Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer

Modern

Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13

• Legacy

Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)

Unknown

No requires_python specified or unparseable

License categories

License

MIT

• Permissive

MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.

Copyleft

GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.

Proprietary

Unknown

No license specified, or none of the above match

How the release cadence was determined

Last release

103 days ago

Total releases

Releases/year

5.9

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

143

Monthly downloads

21,254,741

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

Issue Burden

40.7

per 1k stars

Discussions

0.0

per 1k stars

Fork Ratio

32.2%

contrib / forks

Stale Release

101d

PR Velocity

Quiet

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 464.9K

Windows 1.5K

macOS 1.0K

Python Versions

3.13

74.4% 340.5K

3.12

13.5% 62.0K

3.14

6.2% 28.5K

3.11

4.0% 18.3K

3.10

1.9% 8.6K

Top Countries

305.1K

134.7K

10.6K

2.0K

1.9K

1.6K

1.4K

1.2K

10.

1.1K

Weekly Downloads

Last 7 days

4,797,756

Last 30 days

21,254,741

Peak week (to 2026-10-03)

4,896,431

2026-09-25 – 2026-10-10. Enable JavaScript for the interactive chart.

GitHub Stars *

Current

3,019

Earliest (2026-09-26)

3,015

Change

2026-09-26 – 2026-10-11. Enable JavaScript for the interactive chart.

Dependencies

25 optional dependencies

aiohttp[tests]
extra == "tests"
boto3[tests]
extra == "tests"
cryptography[tests]
extra == "tests"
httpbin>=0.10.3[tests]
extra == "tests"
httpbin>=0.10.3[tests-niquests]
extra == "tests-niquests"
httplib2[tests]
extra == "tests"
httpx[tests]
extra == "tests"
httpx-curl-cffi[tests]
extra == "tests"
httpx2[tests]
extra == "tests"
niquests[tests-niquests]
extra == "tests-niquests"
pycurl[tests]
platform_python_implementation != "PyPy" and extra == "tests"
pyreqwest[tests]
python_version >= "3.11" and extra == "tests"
pytest[tests-niquests]
extra == "tests-niquests"
pytest[tests]
extra == "tests"
pytest-aiohttp[tests-niquests]
extra == "tests-niquests"
pytest-aiohttp[tests]
extra == "tests"
pytest-asyncio[tests]
extra == "tests"
pytest-asyncio[tests-niquests]
extra == "tests-niquests"
pytest-cov[tests]
extra == "tests"
pytest-cov[tests-niquests]
extra == "tests-niquests"
pytest-httpbin[tests-niquests]
extra == "tests-niquests"
pytest-httpbin[tests]
extra == "tests"
requests>=2.22.0[tests]
extra == "tests"
tornado[tests]
extra == "tests"
urllib3[tests]
extra == "tests"

Used By

View all 43 dependents

Repository details

Forks

444

Issues

123

Last Commit

3 days ago

Contributors

143

Open PRs

Archived

GitHub Topics

Testing Python Http Mocking

Data and sources

Tracking Since

September 26, 2026

Data Updated

October 11, 2026

Data Freshness

Fresh

Sources and methodology

Package Information

Package Insights

Downloads by OS

Python Versions

Top Countries

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars *

Dependencies

Used By

Repository details

Data and sources

Health Score

Maintenance

Category

Momentum

Python Support

License Type

Release Cadence

Contributor Risk

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