itsdangerous
Cryptographic signing utilities for safely passing data to untrusted environments.
Used in agent projects
48
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in auth and security libraries
#24 of 47
by use in those projects
Downloads
47.7M
PyPI, last 7 days, itsdangerous
GitHub stars
3,139
last push Jun 14, 2025
How itsdangerous is used
itsdangerous is a dependency in 48 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #24 of 47 in auth and security libraries. The most used alternative there is NextAuth.js. Projects that use it most often also use Jinja2 (83.3%), Requests (83.3%), Click (77.1%).
Often used with itsdangerous
| Jinja2 | 83.3% of itsdangerous projects · 60.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| Requests | 83.3% of itsdangerous projects · 15.7× more than average |
| Click | 77.1% of itsdangerous projects · 43.9× more than average |
| MarkupSafe | 72.9% of itsdangerous projects · 101.7× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 72.9% of itsdangerous projects · 11.2× more than average |
| urllib3 | 70.8% of itsdangerous projects · 46.6× more than average |
| blinker | 68.8% of itsdangerous projects · 218.2× more than average |
| Flask | 66.7% of itsdangerous projects · 48.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list itsdangerous as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install itsdangerous |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (47), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | learntocloud/learn-to-cloud-app, ericrosenberg1/CityBot2, peweet/dail_tracker, brandoz2255/Harvis, seer-engg/seer |
Alternatives to itsdangerous
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NextAuth.js npm Complete open-source authentication solution designed for Next.js applications. |
266 (2.1%) | 6.7M | 28.4K | ISC |
| bcryptjs npm Pure JavaScript bcrypt implementation for secure password hashing without dependencies. |
256 (2.0%) | 14.7M | 3,797 | BSD-3-Clause |
| jsonwebtoken npm Create, verify and decode JSON Web Tokens for authentication and secure data transmission. |
241 (1.9%) | 59.3M | 18.2K | MIT |
| cryptography pypi Python library providing cryptographic recipes and primitives for secure applications. |
213 (1.7%) | 281M | 7,803 | — |
| jose npm Comprehensive JWT and JWK handling for Node.js and web runtimes. |
141 (1.1%) | 151M | 7,824 | MIT |
| PyJWT pypi Python library for encoding and decoding JSON Web Tokens. |
128 (1.0%) | 154M | 5,714 | — |
| Better Auth npm Comprehensive authentication framework for TypeScript with multiple strategies. |
126 (1.0%) | 11.4M | 30.2K | MIT |
| Helmet npm Express middleware that sets HTTP security headers to prevent vulnerabilities. |
125 (1.0%) | 16.2M | 10.7K | MIT |