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xmlsec

Python bindings for the XML Security Library.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

xmlsec has 11.6M monthly downloads and 105 GitHub stars. Version 1.3.17 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2013.

It is stably maintained under a permissive license, last released in Nov 2025.

It is built on top of lxml. It is used by 31 tracked packages, including python3-saml, assemblyline-ui and navigator-auth.

Downloads
Day
364.5K
Week
2.6M
Month
11.6M
Stars
105
Forks
104
Issues
29
Version
1.3.17

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
48
Adoption
70
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
68 days ago
Monthly downloads
11,598,147
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
11,598,147
Stars
105
Stars per 1k downloads
0.01
• 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
367,193
Month daily avg
386,605
Momentum
-5.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
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
237 days ago
Total releases
37
Releases/year
2.9
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
45
Monthly downloads
11,598,147
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
276.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
43.3%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
168d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 179.4K
macOS 409
Windows 190

Python Versions

3.12
32.5% 57.1K
3.11
25.0% 44.0K
3.10
19.2% 33.7K
3.13
13.8% 24.2K
3.14
9.5% 16.7K

Top Countries

1. US US
165.7K
2. IE IE
2.8K
3. DE DE
2.5K
4. SG SG
1.8K
5. ZA ZA
1.8K
6. GB GB
1.1K
7. FR FR
1.1K
8. NL NL
657
9. IN IN
455
10. CA CA
406

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
August 21, 2013
Last Release
7 months ago
Last Commit
2 months ago
Latest Version
1.3.17
Total Releases
37
Contributors
45
Open PRs
1
Archived
No
Author
Bulat Gaifullin
Python Versions
3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
cp27 cp310 cp311 cp312 cp313 cp314 cp37 cp38 cp39
Keywords
xmlsec
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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