PyPI Stats
yt-dlp

yt-dlp

A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
508.6K
Week
3.0M
Month
12.2M
Stars
160.6K
Forks
13.3K
Issues
1.9K
Version
2026.5.5.233942.dev0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0–100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
100
Adoption
80
Community
70
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
2 days ago
Monthly downloads
12,237,503
• 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
12,237,503
Stars
160,586
Stars per 1k downloads
13.12
• 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
423,088
Month daily avg
407,917
Momentum
+3.7%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python 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
1 days ago
Total releases
497
Releases/year
93.7
• 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
1,514
Monthly downloads
12,237,503
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
11.8
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
11.4%
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 511.2K
Windows 18.8K
macOS 8.7K

Python Versions

3.11
65.0% 347.6K
3.12
20.9% 112.0K
3.13
6.5% 34.7K
3.10
5.0% 26.8K
3.14
2.5% 13.4K

Top Countries

1. US US
426.0K
2. DE DE
35.1K
3. BR BR
17.5K
4. KR KR
14.6K
5. SG SG
8.2K
6. CA CA
4.0K
7. IN IN
3.9K
8. TR TR
3.7K
9. NL NL
3.5K
10. CN CN
3.4K

Dependencies

0
40 optional dependencies

Used By

877
View all 877 dependents

Package Information

License
Unlicense
First Release
January 15, 2021
Last Release
Yesterday
Last Commit
3 days ago
Latest Version
2026.5.5.233942.dev0
Total Releases
497
Contributors
1,514
Open PRs
608
Archived
No
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
cli downloader sponsorblock youtube-dl youtube-downloader yt-dlp
Topics
youtube-dl python sponsorblock yt-dlp youtube-downloader cli downloader
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 3, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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