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webvtt-py

Read, write, convert and segment WebVTT caption files in Python.
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No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

webvtt-py has 1.7M monthly downloads and 232 GitHub stars. Version 0.5.1 supports Python 3.7+, first published in 2016.

It is showing limited recent maintenance under a permissive license, last released in May 2024.

It is used by 50 tracked packages, including twikit, graphon and dtlpy.

GitHub topics include webvtt, hls and srt.

Downloads
Day
31.1K
Week
246.0K
Month
1.7M
Stars
232
Forks
61
Issues
15
Version
0.5.1

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
30
Popularity
51
Adoption
60
Community
45
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
753 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,744,690
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
1,744,690
Stars
232
Stars per 1k downloads
0.13
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
35,146
Month daily avg
58,156
Momentum
-39.6%
((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
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
767 days ago
Total releases
15
Releases/year
1.5
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
9
Monthly downloads
1,744,690
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
61
 
Issue Burden
64.7
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
14.8%
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 18.2K
macOS 340
Windows 280

Python Versions

3.12
37.3% 6.4K
3.10
30.5% 5.3K
3.11
15.0% 2.6K
3.14
9.9% 1.7K
3.13
7.2% 1.2K

Top Countries

1. US US
10.8K
2. BE BE
3.0K
3. NL NL
1.1K
4. GB GB
618
5. SE SE
497
6. SG SG
461
7. DE DE
404
8. MY MY
397
9. IE IE
349
10. AU AU
315
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
MIT
First Release
May 20, 2016
Last Release
2 years ago
Last Commit
2 years ago
Latest Version
0.5.1
Total Releases
15
Contributors
9
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Author
Alejandro Mendez
Python Versions
3 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12
Wheels
py3
Keywords
webvtt captions
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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