No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
streamlink has 202K monthly downloads and 12K GitHub stars. Version 8.4.0 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2016.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in May 2026.
It is built on top of certifi, exceptiongroup and isodate. It is used by 29 tracked packages, including biliup, streamcondor and clippiti-player.
GitHub topics include streamlink, livestream and twitch.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
86
Adoption
63
Community
75
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
202,081
•
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
202,081
Stars
11,607
Stars per 1k downloads
57.44
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
6,608
Month daily avg
6,736
Momentum
-1.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=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
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
61 days ago
Total releases
106
Releases/year
10.8
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
289
Monthly downloads
202,081
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
5.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
32.5
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
24.3%
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
5.3K
Windows
336
macOS
61
Python Versions
3.12
34.4%
1.8K
3.14
25.9%
1.3K
3.10
15.8%
821
3.11
12.0%
625
3.9
11.9%
618
Top Countries
1.
US
4.3K
US
2.
CA
613
CA
3.
DE
166
DE
4.
CN
66
CN
5.
SG
56
SG
6.
JP
48
JP
7.
BE
46
BE
8.
FR
39
FR
9.
HK
38
HK
10.
KR
38
KR
Dependencies
13
- certifi
- exceptiongroup
- isodate
- lxml <7,>=4.6.4
- pycountry
- pycryptodome <4,>=3.4.3
- pysocks !=1.5.7,>=1.5.6
- requests <3,>=2.30.0
- trio <1,>=0.25.0
- trio-websocket <1,>=0.9.0
- typing-extensions >=4.1.0
- urllib3 <3,>=2.0.0
- websocket-client <2,>=1.2.1
1 optional dependencies
- urllib3[decompress]
Used By
29
- biliup
- streamcondor
- clippiti-player
- twitch-play
- lurkiti
- biliup-ruinmi
- gridplayer
- pybonsai
- youtube-colab-proxy
- qwitch
- mlbv
- twottle
- streamwatch
- framegrab-mcp-server
- cr-download
- bsky2llm
- streamers
- biliup-mysql
- twitchrealtimehandler
- streamkeeper
- downitall-android
- downitall-windows
- biliup-mysql-1
- streamlinkutils
- holodex-cli
- twitch-fapi-backend
- downitall-window
- stream-manager-cli
- xueba-biliup-mysql
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
BSD-2-Clause
First Release
September 23, 2016
Last Release
2 months ago
Last Commit
6 days ago
Latest Version
8.4.0
Total Releases
106
Contributors
289
Open PRs
6
Archived
No
Author
Streamlink
Python Versions
3
3.10
3.11
3.12
3.13
3.14
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh