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pytube

pytube

Lightweight, dependency-free Python library and CLI for downloading YouTube videos, playlists, and captions.
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Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (pytube/pytube) with 2 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
174.4K
Week
1.1M
Month
4.3M
Stars
13.1K
Forks
2.5K
Issues
670
Version
15.0.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
40
Popularity
87
Adoption
90
Community
80
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
1098 days ago
Monthly downloads
4,281,902
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
4,281,902
Stars
13,114
Stars per 1k downloads
3.06
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
161,131
Month daily avg
142,730
Momentum
+12.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.7
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
The Unlicense (Unlicense)
• 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
1110 days ago
Total releases
86
Releases/year
7.4
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
104
Monthly downloads
4,281,902
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
74
 
Issue Burden
51.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
4.1%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Active
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 140.6K
Windows 4.9K
macOS 2.1K

Python Versions

3.11
52.1% 76.7K
3.12
39.4% 58.0K
3.13
6.2% 9.1K
3.10
1.7% 2.6K
3.14
0.6% 886

Top Countries

1. US US
86.2K
2. DE DE
8.6K
3. IE IE
6.1K
4. JP JP
5.3K
5. IN IN
5.1K
6. SG SG
4.1K
7. BR BR
4.0K
8. FR FR
3.9K
9. GB GB
3.8K
10. CA CA
3.7K

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
The Unlicense (Unlicense)
First Release
September 28, 2014
Last Release
3 years ago
Last Commit
3 years ago
Latest Version
15.0.0
Total Releases
86
Contributors
104
Open PRs
98
Archived
No
Author
Ronnie Ghose, Taylor Fox Dahlin, Nick Ficano
Python Versions
3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
youtube download video stream
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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