No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
pytubefix has 320K monthly downloads and 2K GitHub stars. Version 10.10.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2023.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.
It is built on top of aiohttp and nodejs-wheel-binaries. It is used by 67 tracked packages, including content-core, mcp-music-analysis and warp-beacon.
GitHub topics include pytube, youtube-downloader and pytubefix.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
67
Adoption
55
Community
40
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
13 days ago
Monthly downloads
320,476
•
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
320,476
Stars
1,526
Stars per 1k downloads
4.76
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
8,434
Month daily avg
10,683
Momentum
-21.0%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python 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
MIT
•
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
13 days ago
Total releases
275
Releases/year
98.7
•
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
41
Monthly downloads
320,476
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
55
Issue Burden
7.2
per 1k stars
Discussions
17.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
20.5%
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
9.1K
Windows
494
macOS
200
Python Versions
3.12
53.6%
5.0K
3.14
21.1%
2.0K
3.11
10.2%
958
3.13
9.0%
843
3.8
6.1%
575
Top Countries
1.
US
6.9K
US
2.
DE
346
DE
3.
IN
272
IN
4.
JP
199
JP
5.
SG
172
SG
6.
GB
158
GB
7.
FR
139
FR
8.
NL
123
NL
9.
BR
118
BR
10.
CA
117
CA
Dependencies
2
- aiohttp >=3.12.13
- nodejs-wheel-binaries >=22.20.0
Used By
67
- content-core
- mcp-music-analysis
- warp-beacon
- mov-cli-youtube
- kibernikto
- ytvideo2pdf
- miya-speechless
- artbox
- o2-speechless
- demix
- gold-dl
- playrip
- clipr-yt
- mov-cli-test
- content-summarizer
- fasteryoutubesummary
- yaas
- zf-pd
- mmcli-dl
- musicterm
- nagatoai-core
- ytmusic-cli
- youtube-summariser
- florestdevinstruments
- seavision
- reko-yt
- tonie-sync
- par-yt2text
- pytubepp
- aiyt
- foxypack-youtube-pytubefix
- martino-summarize
- citrailmu
- srcnlpbg
- yt-music-mixer
- star-yt
- wisdom-tree
- vidsnatch
- dml-stream
- mseep-mcp-music-analysis
- youtube-downloader-cli
- yt-concate-py
- getoutvideo
- youtube-zik
- iflow-mcp-mcp-music-analysis
- tubed
- youtube-downloaders
- y2f
- mitoolspro
- yt-info-extract
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
MIT
First Release
September 24, 2023
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
2 weeks ago
Latest Version
10.10.1
Total Releases
275
Contributors
41
Open PRs
0
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.7
3.8
3.9
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh