psf/requests
A simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.
54.6k stars · 12.8k forks · Python
Healthy
Healthy: maintained by 1 person in the last 90 days, no known risks.
Why
No rule fired.
What would change this
- A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.
Maintenance
CompleteSlowing
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 1
- Human commits, 365 days
- 83
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 29%
- Last commit
- Sep 21, 2026 (23 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Aug 25, 2026 (1 month ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- May 14, 2026 (5 months ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 2 hours
Responsiveness: of 23 recent issues, 39% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 1 hour.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 83 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 7
- Contributors
- 400
Top committers
- nateprewitt: 70% of commits
- jorenham: 4% of commits
- DimitriPapadopoulos: 2% of commits
- aldbr: 1% of commits
- aminvakil: 1% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- Sep 24, 2013 to Sep 25, 2013: about 74 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jul 16, 2015 to Jul 17, 2015: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 60 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- May 25, 2023 to May 26, 2023: about 98 more stars than usual, peak 77 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- May 23, 2024 to May 24, 2024: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 85 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Oct 3, 2026 to Oct 6, 2026: about 111 more stars than usual, peak 50 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- 2.6k stars on a repo created before February 2013 have no date, so they aren't in the chart.
- 4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- 2581 stars on the creation day are undated (before 2013-02-10) and are not counted.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
No risk flags.
License
- Now
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- Apache-2.0 (OSI-approved)
Packages
- requests (PYPI): latest 2.34.2, published May 14, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 8.2 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: psf/requests, deps.dev: PyPI requests
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- Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
- Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Computed 17 hours ago · method 2026.10.2