Is pycares safe to use?

pycares has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (5.0.1). DepScope rates its health at 71/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of pycares?

The latest version of pycares is 5.0.1, released 2026-01-01.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of pycares.

No, pycares is actively maintained. Latest release: 5.0.1 (2026-01-01).

Popular alternatives to pycares in PyPI include: typing-extensions, requests, charset_normalizer, cryptography, aiobotocore.

pypiv5.0.1

Python interface for c-ares

License MITpermissive47 versions3 deps5,496,628 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 71/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

15/25

maintenance

17/20

popularity

25/25

security

12/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Maintainer trust

Active maintainers (3m)

3

Contributors (12m)

8

Primary author dominance

58%

GitHub stars

182

Quality signals

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API token

Dependencies (3)

API access

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