yt-dlp
A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
Growth we measured
21 daily star snapshots stored by whatstrending.ai, 2026-06-20 to 2026-09-15. GitHub shows today's number; this is the movement behind it.
- Ranked #20 by stars among the 2,291 repos we snapshot, using the latest star count we recorded for each.
- Rank movement: #11 on 2026-08-21 (185,881 stars) → #10 today — up 1 place among the 678 repos we snapshotted in both windows.
- Its 8-day pace is faster than 92% of the 1,133 repos where we can currently measure one (#86).
How this is measured. whatstrending.ai stores its own daily star and fork snapshot for every repo in its trending index. Every figure above is a delta between two of those stored rows — 21 snapshots for yt-dlp/yt-dlp between 2026-06-20 and 2026-09-15. Our history starts 2026-06-19; we hold nothing from before that date. Nothing here is estimated, interpolated or back-filled, and days without a snapshot are simply not plotted.
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