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yt-dlp

yt-dlp

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
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Verified repo
Monthly downloads
13.5M
Weekly downloads
3.5M
GitHub stars
198.2K

Downloads in the 30 and 7 days to October 10, 2026. Refreshed weekly.

Package Information

Latest Version
2026.8.19
Requires Python
>=3.10
Licence
Unlicense
Last Release
1 month ago
First Release
January 15, 2021
Total Releases
548
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
No reported malware or high/critical advisories · Details

The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
100
Adoption
90
Community
70
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
5 days ago
Monthly downloads
13,526,413
• 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
13,526,413
Stars
198,155
Stars per 1k downloads
14.65
• 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
504,425
Month daily avg
450,880
Momentum
+11.9%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
More insights and metrics
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
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
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
57 days ago
Total releases
548
Releases/year
95.3
• 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
1,534
Monthly downloads
13,526,413
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
10.3
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
8.9%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 
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Downloads by OS

Linux 326.6K
Windows 35.3K
macOS 17.9K

Python Versions

3.12
47.8% 177.8K
3.11
21.7% 80.8K
3.13
16.3% 60.6K
3.14
10.2% 37.8K
3.10
4.1% 15.3K

Top Countries

1. US US
234.7K
2. DE DE
54.2K
3. SG SG
8.9K
4. CN CN
8.0K
5. NL NL
6.5K
6. CA CA
6.3K
7. KR KR
6.0K
8. JP JP
5.7K
9. IN IN
4.7K
10. FR FR
4.4K

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Dependencies

0
36 optional dependencies
  • brotli[default]
    (implementation_name == "cpython" and sys_platform != "ios") and extra == "default"
  • brotli==1.2.0[pin]
    (implementation_name == "cpython" and sys_platform != "ios") and extra == "pin"
  • brotlicffi[default]
    implementation_name != "cpython" and extra == "default"
  • brotlicffi==1.2.0.1[pin]
    implementation_name != "cpython" and extra == "pin"
  • certifi[default]
    extra == "default"
  • certifi==2026.7.22[pin]
    extra == "pin"
  • certifi==2026.7.22[pin-curl-cffi]
    implementation_name == "cpython" and extra == "pin-curl-cffi"
  • cffi==2.1.1[pin-curl-cffi]
    implementation_name == "cpython" and extra == "pin-curl-cffi"
  • cffi==2.1.1[pin-secretstorage]
    platform_python_implementation != "PyPy" and extra == "pin-secretstorage"
  • charset-normalizer==3.5.0[pin]
    extra == "pin"
  • cryptography==50.0.0[pin-secretstorage]
    extra == "pin-secretstorage"
  • curl-cffi!=0.6.*,!=0.7.*,!=0.8.*,!=0.9.*,<0.17,>=0.5.10[curl-cffi]
    implementation_name == "cpython" and extra == "curl-cffi"
  • curl-cffi==0.16.0[pin-curl-cffi]
    implementation_name == "cpython" and extra == "pin-curl-cffi"
  • deno>=2.6.6[deno]
    extra == "deno"
  • deno==2.9.5[pin-deno]
    extra == "pin-deno"
  • idna==3.18[pin]
    extra == "pin"
  • jeepney==0.9.0[pin-secretstorage]
    extra == "pin-secretstorage"
  • mutagen[default]
    extra == "default"
  • mutagen==1.48.1[pin]
    extra == "pin"
  • pycparser==3.0[pin-curl-cffi]
    implementation_name == "cpython" and extra == "pin-curl-cffi"
  • pycparser==3.0[pin-secretstorage]
    (implementation_name != "PyPy" and platform_python_implementation != "PyPy") and extra == "pin-secretstorage"
  • pycryptodomex[default]
    extra == "default"
  • pycryptodomex==3.23.0[pin]
    extra == "pin"
  • requests<3,>=2.32.2[default]
    extra == "default"
  • requests==2.34.2[pin]
    extra == "pin"
  • secretstorage==3.5.0[pin-secretstorage]
    extra == "pin-secretstorage"
  • secretstorage[secretstorage]
    extra == "secretstorage"
  • typing-extensions[curl-cffi]
    python_full_version < "3.11" and extra == "curl-cffi"
  • typing-extensions==4.16.0[pin-curl-cffi]
    python_full_version < "3.11" and extra == "pin-curl-cffi"
  • typing-extensions==4.16.0[pin-secretstorage]
    python_full_version < "3.11" and extra == "pin-secretstorage"
  • urllib3<3,>=2.0.2[default]
    extra == "default"
  • urllib3==2.7.0[pin]
    extra == "pin"
  • websockets>=13.0[default]
    extra == "default"
  • websockets==16.1.1[pin]
    python_full_version < "3.11" and extra == "pin"
  • yt-dlp-ejs==0.8.0[default]
    extra == "default"
  • yt-dlp-ejs==0.8.0[pin]
    extra == "pin"

Used By

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Repository details

Forks
17.3K
Issues
2.0K
Last Commit
6 days ago
Contributors
1,534
Open PRs
661
Archived
No

Data and sources

Tracking Since
September 26, 2026
Data Updated
October 11, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh
Keywords
cli downloader sponsorblock youtube-dl youtube-downloader yt-dlp
Sources and methodology