Is PyGithub safe to use?

PyGithub has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (2.9.1). DepScope rates its health at 66/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of PyGithub?

The latest version of PyGithub is 2.9.1, released 2026-04-14.

Does PyGithub have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of PyGithub.

Is PyGithub deprecated?

No, PyGithub is actively maintained. Latest release: 2.9.1 (2026-04-14).

What are alternatives to PyGithub?

Popular alternatives to PyGithub in PyPI include: botocore, python-dateutil, six, grpcio-status, h11.

What license does PyGithub use?

PyGithub is licensed under GNU Library or Lesser General Public (LGPL).

PyGithub

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License GNU Library or Lesser General Public (LGPL)108 versions5 deps

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (66/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (66/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

6/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

1

Contributors (12m)

35

Primary author dominance

56%

GitHub stars

7,695

single active maintainer 3m

Quality signals

Download trend

stable(0%)

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (5)

pynacl requests pyjwt[crypto]typing-extensions urllib3

API access

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