Package
urllib
Help in opening URLs (mostly HTTP) in a complex world — basic and digest authentication, redirections, timeout and more. Base undici API.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 512.9k
- +85% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 7
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 9 months ago
- v4.9.0
- GitHub stars
- 743
- 126 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 2 / 1
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 254
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
512,858 downloads last week, 2,593,300 in the last month. The 12-month change of +85% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 3244 in total
- Latest version
- 4.9.0, 13 Dec 20259 months ago
- First published
- 16 May 2011
- Last push to GitHub
- 24 Sept 2026same day as the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 2
- Open pull requests
- 1
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 254
- Dependents on npm
- 860
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 23 Jun 2024
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 16 Jul 2022
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 13 Oct 2014
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 25 Aug 2014
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 16 May 2011
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 2.44.1 | 13 Jun 2026 |
| 4.9.1 | 13 Jun 2026 |
| 4.9.0 | 13 Dec 2025 |
| 4.8.2 | 12 Aug 2025 |
| 4.8.1 | 6 Aug 2025 |
| 3.27.3 | 22 Jul 2025 |
| 4.8.0 | 8 Jul 2025 |
| 4.7.1 | 7 Jul 2025 |
| 4.7.0 | 3 Jul 2025 |
| 4.6.12 | 28 Jun 2025 |
| 3.27.2 | 13 Feb 2025 |
| 4.6.11 | 20 Dec 2024 |
| 4.6.10 | 19 Dec 2024 |
| 4.6.9 | 17 Dec 2024 |
- Module format
- ESM + CommonJSFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >= 18.19.0
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 427 kB
- Dependencies (7)
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npm install urllib- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/urllib@4.9.0/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/urllib@4.9.0/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/urllib@4.9.0
| Package | Weekly downloads | Gzip | Last release | Module | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| get-it | 2.1m | - | today | ESM only | - |
| node-fetch | 141.9m | - | 3 years ago | ESM only | - |
| @anvilco/node-fetch | 25.3k | - | 2 years ago | ESM only | - |
| wretch | 170.8k | - | 3 months ago | ESM + CommonJS | - |
| http-cookie-agent | 600.5k | - | 4 months ago | CommonJS | - |
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