Known Vulnerability
The current version has a known security vulnerability. Review the advisory and consider upgrading.
Security Vulnerability
High
GHSA-22fp-mf44-f2mq
youtube-dl vulnerable to file system modification and RCE through improper file-extension sanitization
Source: osv.dev · Flagged: 2 weeks ago
Monthly downloads
157.2K
Weekly downloads
35.4K
GitHub stars
141.3K
Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.
Package Information
Latest Version
Requires Python
Not specified
Licence
Unlicense
Last Release
4 years ago
Author
Sergey M.
First Release
January 20, 2013
Total Releases
951
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Package Insights
Package Risks
- No releases in 1440 days despite active commits
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
50
Popularity
100
Adoption
61
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
324 days ago
Monthly downloads
157,189
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
157,189
Stars
141,314
Stars per 1k downloads
899.01
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
5,062
Month daily avg
5,240
Momentum
-3.4%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
Package does not declare a minimum Python version.
License categories
License
Unlicense
•
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
1764 days ago
Total releases
951
Releases/year
69.2
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
795
Monthly downloads
157,189
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
62
Issue Burden
25.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1440d
PR Velocity
Active
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
3.3K
Windows
137
macOS
23
Python Versions
3.11
39.2%
1.1K
3.12
21.4%
602
3.9
16.6%
469
3.13
12.9%
363
2.7
9.9%
280
Top Countries
1.
US
2.6K
US
2.
IQ
260
IQ
3.
IN
138
IN
4.
RU
109
RU
5.
BE
66
BE
6.
DE
55
DE
7.
SG
51
SG
8.
JP
41
JP
9.
CN
40
CN
10.
NL
36
NL
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
124
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- coolbg 2.8K/mo
- djtools 2.0K/mo
- animeworld 2.0K/mo
- dragon-player 1.3K/mo
- degirum-tools 1.3K/mo
- pagermaid 953/mo
- music-kraken 925/mo
- dali-dataset 921/mo
- pyscrapers 882/mo
Data and sources
Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh