No known security advisories.
The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.
yt-dlp has 19.6M monthly downloads and 175K GitHub stars. Version 2026.7.4 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2021.
It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jul 2026.
It is used by 1,040 tracked packages, including spotdl, archivebox and karaoke-gen.
GitHub topics include youtube-dl, sponsorblock and yt-dlp.
Package Insights
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
100
Adoption
100
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
3 days ago
Monthly downloads
19,591,596
•
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
19,591,596
Stars
175,219
Stars per 1k downloads
8.94
•
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
843,476
Month daily avg
653,053
Momentum
+29.2%
((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
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
3 days ago
Total releases
526
Releases/year
96.0
•
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
1,530
Monthly downloads
19,591,596
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
63
Issue Burden
10.9
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
10.3%
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
717.4K
Windows
34.1K
macOS
16.6K
Python Versions
3.12
57.7%
441.0K
3.10
20.7%
158.0K
3.11
10.5%
80.5K
3.13
5.8%
44.1K
3.14
5.4%
41.1K
Top Countries
1.
US
606.9K
US
2.
DE
40.1K
DE
3.
BR
18.5K
BR
4.
SG
10.7K
SG
5.
NL
7.6K
NL
6.
KR
6.7K
KR
7.
CN
6.5K
CN
8.
IE
6.5K
IE
9.
CA
5.9K
CA
10.
JP
5.7K
JP
Dependencies
0
38 optional dependencies
- brotli[default]
- brotli[pin]
- brotlicffi[default]
- brotlicffi[pin]
- certifi[default]
- certifi[pin]
- certifi[pin-curl-cffi]
- cffi[pin-curl-cffi]
- cffi[pin-secretstorage]
- charset-normalizer[pin]
- cryptography[pin-secretstorage]
- curl-cffi[curl-cffi]
- curl-cffi[pin-curl-cffi]
- deno[deno]
- deno[pin-deno]
- idna[pin]
- jeepney[pin-secretstorage]
- markdown-it-py[pin-curl-cffi]
- mdurl[pin-curl-cffi]
- mutagen[default]
- mutagen[pin]
- pycparser[pin-curl-cffi]
- pycparser[pin-secretstorage]
- pycryptodomex[default]
- pycryptodomex[pin]
- pygments[pin-curl-cffi]
- requests[default]
- requests[pin]
- rich[pin-curl-cffi]
- secretstorage[pin-secretstorage]
- secretstorage[secretstorage]
- typing-extensions[pin-secretstorage]
- urllib3[default]
- urllib3[pin]
- websockets[default]
- websockets[pin]
- yt-dlp-ejs[default]
- yt-dlp-ejs[pin]
Used By
1040
- spotdl
- archivebox
- karaoke-gen
- nowfy
- distillr
- nowfybeta
- catt
- biliup
- spotiflac
- kryten-webqueue
- guanlan
- capcat
- fm-dlp
- videohash2
- lmms-eval
- pulse-engine
- montaj
- gamdl
- gtktube
- ytminer-client
- parsehub
- utilities-nlp
- fluxmedia
- staaar-youtube
- auto-dlp
- grabberlib2
- dashbox
- maneki
- vision-agent
- anki-miner
- ani-tupi
- media-downloader
- gpt3discord
- library
- xklb
- zimscraperlib
- ytdl-sub
- scdl
- tools-extra
- mrx-aniworld
- tmutils
- warp-beacon
- idm-cli
- ovos-ocp-youtube-plugin
- get-class-material
- opentakserver
- maling
- ytp-dl
- xiaomusic
- usdb-syncer
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.
Package Information
License
Unlicense
First Release
January 15, 2021
Last Release
4 days ago
Last Commit
4 days ago
Latest Version
2026.7.4
Total Releases
526
Contributors
1,530
Open PRs
575
Archived
No
Python Versions
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