# Hypercorn

ASGI and WSGI web server for Python applications, supporting HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and WebSockets.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/hypercorn/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-29
Listed since: 2026-10-29

## Record

### Links

- repository: https://github.com/pgjones/hypercorn
- docs: https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: P G Jones
- maintainerType: individual
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2018
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: web-server
- hosting: python
- language: python
- runtime: python
- runtimeMin: python 3.10
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: pip

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 0
- latestReleaseDate: 2025-11-08

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 1621
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 65
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: 844
- dependentPackages: 60

### Sources

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- urls: https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (read 2026-10-29)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pgjones/hypercorn/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
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- category: https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (read 2026-10-29)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/pgjones/hypercorn (read 2026-10-29)
- runtime: https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/installation.html (read 2026-10-29)
- runtimeMin: https://pypi.org/pypi/hypercorn/json (read 2026-10-29)
- runsAs: https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ (read 2026-10-29)
- installMethod: https://hypercorn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/installation.html (read 2026-10-29)
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- licenseModel: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pgjones/hypercorn/main/LICENSE (read 2026-10-29)
- currentMajor: https://pypi.org/pypi/hypercorn/json (read 2026-10-29)
- latestReleaseDate: https://pypi.org/pypi/hypercorn/json (read 2026-10-29)
- firstRelease: https://pypi.org/pypi/hypercorn/json (read 2026-10-29)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/pgjones/hypercorn (read 2026-10-29)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/pgjones/hypercorn/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-29)
- dependentRepos: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/hypercorn (read 2026-10-29)
- dependentPackages: https://packages.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/registries/pypi.org/packages/hypercorn (read 2026-10-29)

## Notes

Hypercorn is an ASGI and WSGI web server for Python applications, installed from PyPI with pip. Its docs describe it as based on the sans-io hyper library and its README says it supports HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and WebSockets, with optional HTTP/3 through an extra. It began as part of Quart and was forked from Quart 0.5.0. P G Jones maintains it under the MIT license, and the repository is on GitHub.

## Worth knowing

The current release requires a newer Python than the installation page of the docs states.

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