httpie/cli
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more.
38.6k stars · 4k forks · Python
Avoid
Avoid: no human commits in a year, and most questions go unanswered.
Why
- No human commits since December 2024, and only 0 of 11 recent issues got a maintainer reply. (source 1, source 2, source 3, source 4)
- The latest version of PyPI package httpie has 1 high-severity security advisory (PYSEC-2023-242). (source 1, source 2, source 3)
What would change this
- A release or merged commit from a maintainer, or replies to recent issues.
- The latest version is patched or the advisory is withdrawn.
Maintenance
CompleteDormant
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 0
- Human commits, 365 days
- 0
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Dec 17, 2024 (1 year ago)
- Last human commit
- Dec 17, 2024 (1 year ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 0
- Last release
- Nov 1, 2024 (1 year ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 25 hours
Responsiveness: of 11 recent issues, 0% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- No human commits in 365 days, and most issues go unanswered.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 90 since May 5, 2022
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 15
- Contributors
- 147
Top committers
- jkbrzt: 47% of commits
- isidentical: 18% of commits
- hugo-sid: 2% of commits
- a1346054: 1% of commits
- abdelq: 1% of commits
- No human commits in the last 365 days, so shares use the newest 100 commits back to 2022-05-05T18:18:20Z.
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteMostly organic, confidence high
Bursts
- Feb 10, 2022 to Mar 11, 2022: about 1.2k more stars than usual, peak 469 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Apr 14, 2022 to May 14, 2022: about 18k more stars than usual, peak 5.2k in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
- Oct 14, 2022 to Oct 15, 2022: about 75 more stars than usual, peak 68 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 28, 2022 to Nov 29, 2022: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 47 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
- Jan 5, 2023 to Jan 12, 2023: about 228 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 9, 2023 to Oct 10, 2023: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 56 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- May 11, 2025 to May 12, 2025: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- The star history was reset at some point, so earlier stars aren't counted.
- 45 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
- Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.
- The star history has a zero run of 26 weeks or more, so the analysis starts after it.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- High: OSV, via deps.dev, lists PYSEC-2023-242 at HIGH severity on the latest version of httpie. Details
License
- Now
- BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- BSD-3-Clause (OSI-approved)
Packages
- httpie (PYPI): latest 3.2.4, published Nov 1, 2024
Advisories for the latest version: PYSEC-2023-242 (high)
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
Sources: GitHub: httpie/cli, deps.dev: PyPI httpie, OSV: PYSEC-2023-242
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- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 13, 2026: Avoid
Computed 14 hours ago · method 2026.10.2