No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
gallery-dl has 312K monthly downloads and 19K GitHub stars. Version 1.32.5 supports Python 3.8+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a copyleft license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of requests. It is used by 14 tracked packages, including library, xklb and pusheen-archiver.
GitHub topics include gallery, downloader and pixiv.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
89
Adoption
74
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
312,284
•
Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
312,284
Stars
18,746
Stars per 1k downloads
60.03
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
•
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
10,574
Month daily avg
10,409
Momentum
+1.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
•
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
GPL-2.0-only
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
•
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
7 days ago
Total releases
193
Releases/year
20.1
•
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
210
Monthly downloads
312,284
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
•
Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
82
Issue Burden
59.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
54.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
PR Velocity
Quiet
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
4.9K
Windows
1.5K
macOS
524
Python Versions
3.12
32.1%
2.4K
3.13
24.6%
1.8K
3.11
20.1%
1.5K
3.14
19.7%
1.5K
3.10
3.5%
260
Top Countries
1.
US
4.4K
US
2.
IE
436
IE
3.
RU
436
RU
4.
KR
297
KR
5.
DE
282
DE
6.
JP
273
JP
7.
SG
265
SG
8.
DK
248
DK
9.
NL
231
NL
10.
BR
198
BR
Dependencies
1
- requests >=2.11.0
8 optional dependencies
- jinja2[extra]
- pyyaml[extra]
- requests[extra]
- secretstorage[extra]
- toml[extra]
- truststore[extra]
- yt-dlp[extra]
- yt-dlp[video]
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
GPL-2.0-only
First Release
November 30, 2016
Last Release
1 week ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.32.5
Total Releases
193
Contributors
210
Open PRs
54
Archived
No
Author
Mike Fährmann
Python Versions
3
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh