shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist
Checklist of the most important security countermeasures when designing, testing, and releasing your API
23.3k stars · 2.6k forks
This repo isn't software code, so code checks are limited.
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
CompleteSteady
- Human commits, 30 days
- 0
- Human commits, 90 days
- 1
- Human commits, 365 days
- 11
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 0%
- Last commit
- Jul 21, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last human commit
- Jul 21, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 1
- Last release
- none found
- Median PR merge time
- 6 hours
Responsiveness: of 0 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 0 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Organization
- Commits sampled
- 11 since Oct 15, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 2
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 3
- Contributors
- 85
Top committers
- Maikuolan: 36% of commits
- bad-antics: 27% of commits
- sethherr: 27% of commits
- Mohsents: 9% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence medium
Bursts
- Nov 16, 2017 to Nov 25, 2017: about 571 more stars than usual, peak 131 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jan 29, 2018 to Jan 31, 2018: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Mar 13, 2018 to Mar 16, 2018: about 116 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Sep 24, 2019 to Oct 1, 2019: about 552 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 17, 2021 to Nov 18, 2021: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 30, 2022 to Jan 31, 2022: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 18, 2022 to Feb 21, 2022: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 61 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 5, 2022 to Aug 7, 2022: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 76 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Oct 27, 2022 to Nov 8, 2022: about 884 more stars than usual, peak 203 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 24, 2022 to Dec 26, 2022: about 194 more stars than usual, peak 92 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 12, 2023 to Jan 16, 2023: about 102 more stars than usual, peak 37 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 11, 2023 to Feb 17, 2023: about 464 more stars than usual, peak 143 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 6, 2023 to Sep 12, 2023: about 123 more stars than usual, peak 69 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Nov 19, 2023 to Nov 21, 2023: about 50 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
- Mar 17, 2024 to Mar 18, 2024: about 53 more stars than usual, peak 42 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
- Engagement is not compared for non-code or mirror repositories.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
No published packages found.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.0 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
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[](https://reporadar.ai/shieldfy/API-Security-Checklist)Earlier verdicts
- Oct 15, 2026: Healthy
Computed 2 hours ago · method 2026.10.2