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: 1 month ago
youtube-dl has 261K monthly downloads and 141K GitHub stars. Version 2021.12.17, first published in 2013.
It is minimally maintained under a permissive license, last released in Dec 2021.
It is used by 127 tracked packages, including comp, base-astro-bot and animeworld.
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
64
Community
70
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
222 days ago
Monthly downloads
260,640
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
260,640
Stars
140,640
Stars per 1k downloads
539.59
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
7,824
Month daily avg
8,688
Momentum
-9.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100Python version support tiers
requires_python
Not specified
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
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
1663 days ago
Total releases
951
Releases/year
70.6
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
798
Monthly downloads
260,640
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
25.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
7.5%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
1440d
PR Velocity
Active
Weekly Downloads
GitHub Stars
Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.
Downloads by OS
Linux
5.8K
Windows
252
macOS
44
Python Versions
3.12
39.1%
2.0K
3.11
24.9%
1.3K
3.13
17.6%
919
3.10
9.3%
482
3.9
9.1%
475
Top Countries
1.
US
3.5K
US
2.
IQ
639
IQ
3.
IN
488
IN
4.
SG
325
SG
5.
DE
146
DE
6.
CN
116
CN
7.
FI
110
FI
8.
FR
87
FR
9.
NL
74
NL
10.
EG
64
EG
Dependencies
0
No dependencies
Used By
127
- comp
- base-astro-bot
- animeworld
- coolbg
- djtools
- cinefiles
- degirum-tools
- dali-dataset
- dragon-player
- gbak
- music-kraken
- pagermaid
- visionlib
- algorin-cli
- instrumental-dl
- pyscrapers
- pytubekit
- lib-youtube-cd-burner
- youtube-downloader
- material-zui
- hanimetv
- music-dl
- dmm-search3
- serietvapi-bot
- youtubetranscript
- musicutils
- escarpolette
- fs-youtube
- stenocaptioner
- ts3ekkosingle
- studytool
- edx-dl
- semevalplatform
- honestybox-measurement
- hanimetv2026
- ftransc
- melodine
- rvsearch
- deezload
- ez-spotify-dl
- music-album-creation
- m3u-manage
- edx-helper
- yt-helper
- musicgen
- song
- song-and-spell
- inceptiontube
- ytgrep
- trimmer
Package Information
License
Unlicense
First Release
January 20, 2013
Last Release
4 years ago
Last Commit
7 months ago
Latest Version
2021.12.17
Total Releases
951
Contributors
798
Open PRs
499
Archived
No
Author
Sergey M.
Python Versions
2
2.6
2.7
3
3.2
3.3
3.4
3.5
3.6
3.7
3.8
Wheels
py2
py3
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh