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streamlink

streamlink

Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player
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Monthly downloads
150.9K
Weekly downloads
33.5K
GitHub stars *
11.8K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
8.6.2
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
BSD-2-Clause
Last Release
1 week ago
Author
Streamlink
First Release
September 23, 2016
Total Releases
110
Python Versions
3 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
87
Adoption
61
Community
75
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
4 days ago
Monthly downloads
150,893
• 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
150,893
Stars
11,847
Stars per 1k downloads
78.51
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
4,792
Month daily avg
5,030
Momentum
-4.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.14 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.11 to 3.13
• Legacy
Supports 3.10 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BSD-2-Clause
• 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
8 days ago
Total releases
110
Releases/year
10.9
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
296
Monthly downloads
150,893
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
85
 
Issue Burden
5.1
per 1k stars
Discussions
32.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 3.4K
Windows 390
macOS 136

Python Versions

3.12
36.0% 1.4K
3.13
21.3% 827
3.14
18.9% 733
3.10
11.9% 462
3.11
11.8% 459

Top Countries

1. US US
3.0K
2. DE DE
121
3. SG SG
105
4. AU AU
91
5. CN CN
86
6. JP JP
81
7. KR KR
71
8. HK HK
67
9. IN IN
62
10. FR FR
60

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars *

Dependencies

13
1 optional dependencies
  • urllib3<3,>=2.0.0[decompress]
    python_version >= "3.14" and extra == "decompress"

Used By

30
View all 30 dependents

Repository details

Forks
1.2K
Issues
60
Last Commit
5 days ago
Contributors
296
Open PRs
9
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Sources and methodology