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

vcrpy has 18.1M monthly downloads and 3K GitHub stars. Version 8.3.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

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

It is built on top of pyyaml and wrapt. It is used by 43 tracked packages, including pytest-recording, langchain-tests and pytest-vcr.

GitHub topics include testing, http and mocking.

Downloads
Day
791.4K
Week
4.7M
Month
18.1M
Stars
3.0K
Forks
426
Issues
119
Version
8.3.0

Package Insights

Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
74
Adoption
90
Community
80
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
18,115,951
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
18,115,951
Stars
2,975
Stars per 1k downloads
0.16
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
670,378
Month daily avg
603,865
Momentum
+11.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
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
4 days ago
Total releases
80
Releases/year
6.0
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
18,115,951
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
69
 
Issue Burden
40.0
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
33.6%
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 639.6K
Windows 1.4K
macOS 988

Python Versions

3.13
78.8% 500.8K
3.12
8.0% 50.9K
3.14
6.9% 43.5K
3.11
3.4% 21.4K
3.10
2.9% 18.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
348.4K
2. IE IE
253.0K
3. NL NL
9.4K
4. DE DE
7.5K
5. SE SE
5.5K
6. BE BE
4.0K
7. SG SG
3.9K
8. CA CA
1.5K
9. GB GB
1.5K
10. JP JP
1.3K
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
February 22, 2013
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
8.3.0
Total Releases
80
Contributors
143
Open PRs
26
Archived
No
Author
Kevin McCarthy
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13
Wheels
py2 py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh