Is faker safe to use?

faker has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (40.37.0). DepScope rates its health at 95/100 (low risk).

What is the latest version of faker?

The latest version of faker is 40.37.0, released 2026-08-21.

Does faker have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of faker.

No, faker is actively maintained. Latest release: 40.37.0 (2026-08-21).

What are alternatives to faker?

Popular alternatives to faker in PyPI include: urllib3, cffi, pydantic-core, pydantic_core, pandas.

What license does faker use?

faker is licensed under MIT License.

faker

pypiv40.37.0

Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.

License MIT Licensepermissive504 versions1 maintainers3 deps15,322,983 weekly dl

joke2k/faker

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 95/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

10/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

19

Contributors (12m)

23

Primary author dominance

66%

GitHub stars

19,220

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.73critical

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (3)

tzdata;tzdata;pillow;

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/faker

faker

pypiv40.37.0

Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.

License MIT Licensepermissive504 versions1 maintainers3 deps15,322,983 weekly dl

joke2k/faker

/ 100

Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 95/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

25/25

maintenance

20/20

popularity

25/25

security

15/15

maturity

10/15

community

0/15

popularity_floor

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

19

Contributors (12m)

23

Primary author dominance

66%

GitHub stars

19,220

Quality signals

OSS Criticality

0.73critical

Publish security

API token

Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (3)

tzdata;tzdata;pillow;

API access

Get this data programmatically — free, no authentication.

curl https://depscope.dev/api/check/pypi/faker