requests-oauthlib
OAuth authentication support for the Requests HTTP library.
Auth and security libraries PyPI ISC
Used in agent projects
23
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in auth and security libraries
#43 of 47
by use in those projects
Downloads
60M
PyPI, last 7 days, requests-oauthlib
GitHub stars
1,773
last push Jun 18, 2025
How requests-oauthlib is used
requests-oauthlib is a dependency in 23 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #43 of 47 in auth and security libraries. The most used alternative there is NextAuth.js. Projects that use it most often also use Requests (100.0%), oauthlib (91.3%), python-dotenv (91.3%).
Often used with requests-oauthlib
| Requests | 100.0% of requests-oauthlib projects · 18.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| oauthlib | 91.3% of requests-oauthlib projects · 527.0× more than average |
| python-dotenv | 91.3% of requests-oauthlib projects · 14.0× more than average |
| charset-normalizer | 87.0% of requests-oauthlib projects · 69.9× more than average |
| Click | 87.0% of requests-oauthlib projects · 49.5× more than average |
| NumPy | 82.6% of requests-oauthlib projects · 21.5× more than average |
| urllib3 | 82.6% of requests-oauthlib projects · 54.3× more than average |
| attrs | 78.3% of requests-oauthlib projects · 77.6× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list requests-oauthlib as a dependency.
Install
| Package | pip install requests-oauthlib |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Python (21), Other (1), Next.js (1) |
| Example projects | Josh-XT/AGiXT, mikegianfelice/Hunter, ManojINaik/manimAnimationAgent, Who-Visions/NouGenShards |
Alternatives to requests-oauthlib
| 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 |