Is pooch safe to use?

pooch has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (1.9.0). DepScope rates its health at 52/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of pooch?

The latest version of pooch is 1.9.0, released 2026-01-30.

Does pooch have known vulnerabilities?

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pooch.

No, pooch is actively maintained. Latest release: 1.9.0 (2026-01-30).

What are alternatives to pooch?

Popular alternatives to pooch in PyPI include: boto3, packaging, idna, certifi, urllib3.

What license does pooch use?

pooch is licensed under BSD-3-Clause.

pooch

pypiv1.9.0

A friend to fetch your data files

License BSD-3-Clausepermissive35 versions8 deps

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Health

use with caution

[email protected] low health (52/100) — consider alternatives

Moderate health score (52/100) — verify manually

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

0/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

0/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Quality signals

Publish security

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Health History

Dependency Tree

License Audit

Dependencies (8)

platformdirs packaging requests tqdm paramiko xxhash pytest-httpserver;pytest-localftpserver;

API access

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