PyRank
spotDL

spotdl

Download your Spotify playlists and songs along with album art and metadata (from YouTube if a match is found).
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spotdl has 231K monthly downloads and 25K GitHub stars. Version 4.5.0 supports Python <3.15,>=3.10, first published in 2018.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.

It is built on top of beautifulsoup4, datastar-py and fastapi. It is used by 23 tracked packages, including spotify-auto-dl, nekodl and maestro-music.

GitHub topics include mp3, spotify and download-music.

Shared Repository
This package shares its GitHub repository (spotDL/spotify-downloader) with 1 other package. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.
Downloads
Day
10.4K
Week
74.1K
Month
230.6K
Stars
25.3K
Forks
2.2K
Issues
66
Version
4.5.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
90
Popularity
91
Adoption
93
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
9 days ago
Monthly downloads
230,607
• 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
230,607
Stars
25,318
Stars per 1k downloads
109.79
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
10,582
Month daily avg
7,687
Momentum
+37.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
<3.15,>=3.10
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
51 days ago
Total releases
104
Releases/year
12.6
• 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
176
Monthly downloads
230,607
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
63
 
Issue Burden
2.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.0%
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 945
macOS 248

Python Versions

3.12
75.3% 7.8K
3.11
8.7% 902
3.14
8.6% 888
3.13
4.6% 474
3.10
2.9% 297

Top Countries

1. US US
8.4K
2. GB GB
515
3. ES ES
399
4. DE DE
242
5. BR BR
129
6. IN IN
87
7. FR FR
75
8. NL NL
67
9. AU AU
56
10. IT IT
54

Dependencies

21

Used By

23
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
April 17, 2018
Last Release
1 month ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
4.5.0
Total Releases
104
Contributors
176
Open PRs
32
Archived
No
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py3
Keywords
downloader music spotdl spotify
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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