publish-event-sns
Publish message into SNS Topic with attributes
Decision gist · record as of 2026-08-14
No—while the package itself is simple and permissively licensed, it is abandoned with no updates since 2020-07-09. For new projects, use boto3 directly or a maintained SNS wrapper. Only consider this if you have legacy code already depending on it and cannot refactor.AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page — verify before relying
Before you install
- AWS credentials must be configured in your environment; boto3 is required but not listed as a declared dependency.
- Installation is frictionless with no runtime dependencies, but the package is abandoned—last release was 2020-05-22 and last commit 2020-07-09.
- No maintenance activity means security patches and compatibility updates are unlikely.
License · maintenance · safety
permissive license (permissive) — MIT license permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it safe from a licensing perspective for most projects.
last release 2020-05-22 (2275 days) · last repo commit 2020-07-09
0 known vulnerabilities (OSV.dev, 2026-08-14) · 1,223,188 downloads/mo, #4,197 on PyPI
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Verify before relying
pip install publish-event-sns
from publish_event_sns import publish
my_dict = {"foo": "bar"}
response = publish("topic_name", my_dict)- Whether the package works with current boto3 versions and modern Python releases without updates.
- Whether SNS attribute handling for non-primitive types matches current AWS SNS behavior.
- Whether the region_name and session parameters work as documented with current AWS SDK.
- Whether boto3 is an undeclared runtime dependency or must be installed separately.
What it is and what it does
publish-event-sns wraps AWS SNS publishing to simplify sending dict objects as JSON messages with automatic attribute extraction. You pass a dictionary and topic name; the package converts the dict to JSON, extracts primitive fields as SNS message attributes, and publishes via boto3. The package is a thin convenience layer that handles filtering non-primitive values from attributes and accepting optional boto3 session or region parameters.
However, it has not been maintained since 2020-07-09, so it may not work reliably with recent boto3 or Python versions without local patches. For new projects, using boto3 directly is often simpler than adopting an unmaintained wrapper.
Use it for
- Publish application events to SNS from Python services with dict payloads and searchable attributes.
- Integrate SNS publishing into Lambda functions or microservices that generate structured event data.
- Send monitoring or audit events to SNS topics with automatic attribute extraction from event dicts.
Worth the install?
AI-flagged interpretation of the facts on this page. Verify before relying on it.
No—while the package itself is simple and permissively licensed, it is abandoned with no updates since 2020-07-09.
For new projects, use boto3 directly or a maintained SNS wrapper. Only consider this if you have legacy code already depending on it and cannot refactor.
Install
publish-event-sns on PyPI
Before you install
Installation is frictionless with no runtime dependencies, but the package is abandoned—last release was 2020-05-22 and last commit 2020-07-09. No maintenance activity means security patches and compatibility updates are unlikely.
AWS credentials must be configured in your environment; boto3 is required but not listed as a declared dependency.
License in practice
MIT license permits free use, modification, and distribution with minimal restrictions, making it safe from a licensing perspective for most projects.
Quickstart
pip install publish-event-sns
from publish_event_sns import publish
my_dict = {"foo": "bar"}
response = publish("topic_name", my_dict)Verify before relying
- Whether the package works with current boto3 versions and modern Python releases without updates.
- Whether SNS attribute handling for non-primitive types matches current AWS SNS behavior.
- Whether the region_name and session parameters work as documented with current AWS SDK.
- Whether boto3 is an undeclared runtime dependency or must be installed separately.
Package facts
| License | permissive license permissive |
| Python support | Not specified |
| Install friction | Low. Pure-Python wheel |
| Runtime dependencies | None |
| Maintenance | Abandoned 2,275 days since the last release |
| Last repo commit | |
| First released | |
| Downloads | 1,223,188 / month, #4,197 on PyPI 30-day window, as of 2026-08-14 |
| Known vulnerabilities | None known OSV.dev, checked 2026-08-14 |
| Classifiers | License :: OSI Approved :: MIT LicenseOperating System :: OS IndependentProgramming Language :: Python :: 3 |
Evidence: publish_event_sns-0.0.3-py3-none-any.whl
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