unclecode/crawl4ai vs yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Both showing Healthy signals — pick on fit, not health
As of September 2026, crawl4ai and yt-dlp both show healthy maintenance signals. crawl4ai was committed to 3 weeks ago with 15+ active contributors, while yt-dlp was committed to 3 weeks ago with 23+ active contributors. crawl4ai is Apache-2.0-licensed while yt-dlp is Unlicense-licensed. Neither has known critical or high-severity CVEs in its dependency tree.
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unclecode/crawl4ai
Strong maintenance signals
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; 8 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
- ✓Last commit 3d ago
- ✓15 active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 47% of recent commits)
- ✓Apache-2.0 licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Strong maintenance signals
No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.
No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.
Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.
Architecture graded D (53/100): poor layering / cycles / narrow stability spread; 6 cyclic import chains — pervasive coupling
- ✓Last commit 1d ago
- ✓23+ active contributors
- ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 40% of recent commits)
- ✓Unlicense licensed
- ✓CI configured
- ✓Tests present
What would improve this?
- •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: improve architecture to grade ≥ C — see "How is the D grade computed?" panel for the specific deltas
Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard
Signal-by-signal breakdown
| crawl4ai | yt-dlp | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 79,126 | 187,105 |
| Last commit | 27d ago | 22d ago |
| License | Apache-2.0 | Unlicense |
| Open issues | 153 | 2,608 |
| Has tests | ✓ | ✓ |
| Has CI | ✓ | ✓ |
| Test coverage | 93% | 8% |
| Dependency CVEs | No CVEs | No CVEs |
| Architecture grade | C | D |
| Cycles | 8 | 6 |
| Bottom-line | Healthy signals | Healthy signals |
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