yt-dlp

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader

Package Health Score

79/100
  • securityNo known security issues
  • popularityInfluential project
  • maintenanceSustainable
  • communitySustainable

Maintenance

SUSTAINABLE

Commit Frequency

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Open Issues
1932
Open PR
604
New PRS
1
Last Release
9 days ago
Last Commit
23 hours ago
Maintainers
1

Further analysis of the maintenance status of yt-dlp based on released PyPI versions cadence, the repository activity, and other data points determined that its maintenance is Sustainable.

We found that yt-dlp demonstrates a positive version release cadence with at least one new version released in the past 3 months.

As a healthy sign for on-going project maintenance, we found that the GitHub repository had at least 1 pull request or issue interacted with by the community.

Popularity

INFLUENTIAL PROJECT
GitHub Stars
171.4k
Forks
14.5k
Contributors
0

Based on project statistics from the GitHub repository for the PyPI package yt-dlp, we found that it has been starred 171,446 times.

Community

SUSTAINABLE
Readme
Yes
Contributing.md
Yes
Code of Conduct
No
Contributors
0
Funding
Yes
LICENSE
Unlicense

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License

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Security

NO KNOWN SECURITY ISSUES
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No vulnerabilities found

No vulnerabilities found in the latest version

There are 13 total vulnerabilities, but none affect the latest version (2026.6.18.235958.dev0)

Package versions

606 VERSIONS IN TOTAL See all versions
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