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getter

1.8.4

Package for downloading things from a string URL using a variety of protocols. For more information about how to use this package see README

Latest version published 14 days ago

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Package Health Score

96 / 100

Popularity

Influential project
popularity-imported Imported By
1.23K
popularity-stars GitHub Stars
1.79K
popularity-forks Forks
257
popularity-contributors Contributors
100

Usage Popularity

TOP 5%

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the Golang package getter, we found that it has been 1,788 times.

The popularity score for Golang modules is calculated based on the number of stars that the project has on GitHub as well as the number of imports by other modules.

Security

No known security issues
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1.8.4 (Latest)

Security risks

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Release Date
Dec 29, 2025
License
MPL-2.0
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Non-Permissive License

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Security Policy
No

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Maintenance

Healthy

Commit Frequency

Open Issues
133
Open PR
35
Last Release
14 days ago
Last Commit
2 days ago

Further analysis of the maintenance status of github.com/hashicorp/go-getter based on released golang versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Healthy.

We found that github.com/hashicorp/go-getter demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Community

Active
Readme.md
No
Contributing.md
No
Code of Conduct
Yes
Contributors
100
Funding
No

With more than 10 contributors for the github.com/hashicorp/go-getter repository, this is possibly a sign for a growing and inviting community.

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