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Software health reportschema 0.34.0 · metrics 2.10.0 · 2026-09-11 08:29 UTC

ArchiveBox / abx-dl

⬇️ A simple all-in-one CLI tool to download EVERYTHING from a URL (like youtube-dl/yt-dlp, forum-dl, gallery-dl, simpler ArchiveBox). 🎭 Uses headless Chrome to get HTML, JS, CSS, images/video/audio/subtitles, PDFs, screenshots, article text, git repos, and more...

PythonMIT★ 142 stars⑂ 9 forkssince Oct 2024View on GitHub ↗
KindCommand-line toolLibraryhow this is determined
#archivebox#chrome#crawling#curl#downloader#gallery-dl#headless#internet-archiving#playwright#puppeteer#scraping#wget#youtube-dl#yt-dlp#cli-tool#cli#http-client#ai-scraping

ArchiveBox/abx-dl holds a health index of 83 out of 100, placing it in the Excellent band. It scores highest on Engineering Quality (86/100) and lowest on AI Readiness (51/100). It was last updated 3 days ago. A single contributor accounts for most of its recent work.

83
overall / 100
Excellent

Software health index

Metrics are grouped into weighted categories on one standardized 1–100 scale. Overall starts as their weighted mean, calibrated against the distribution of the public record so bands carry percentile meaning; when public evidence triggers the High-Risk Jurisdiction Policy, the rating is adjusted and receives an At Risk ceiling of 34.

83
Exceptional93-100The record's top tier (≈ top 5%); essentially all checked criteria met
Excellent80-92Strong across the board; minor gaps
Good65-79Healthy; gaps are limited and manageable
Moderate50-64Acceptable with notable gaps; review recommended
Weak35-49Material weaknesses across several areas
At Risk20-34Significant weaknesses; adoption warrants caution
Critical1-19Severe problems (abandoned, single-maintainer, no hygiene)
VitalityCommunity &AdoptionSustainability &GovernanceEngineeringQualitySecurityAI Readiness

Score profile

Each axis is a category. The shape matters more than the average — a healthy subject fills the whole shape, while a spike-and-crater profile means strength in one dimension is masking risk in another.

The weighted overall 70 is calibrated to 83 on the published index scale (record calibration 2026-08-02).

Ownership

ArchiveBoxOrganization · verified domain
508 followers23 public repossince Nov 2020

This repository is backed by an organization — shared, accountable stewardship that can outlive any single maintainer.

Package ecosystems

RegistryPackageVersionDownloads / moVersionsLast publishTags
PyPIabx-dl1.12.269267,5775343 days agoscrapingcrawlingdownloadinginternet-archivingweb-archivingdigipreswarcpreservationbackupsarchivingwebbookmarkspuppeteerbrowserdownload

Metrics by category

Vitality

Is the project alive — is code being written and are releases shipping?

83Excellent · 21% of overall

Development activity

79Good
How it's scored
36/36Push recency — last push 3 days ago
15.2/36Commit cadence — 22/52 weeks with commits
18/18Commit volume — 1,184 commits in the last year
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
commits_last_year1,184
human_commit_share1
days_since_last_push3
active_weeks_last_year22

Release discipline

90Excellent
How it's scored
27/27Ships releases — 100 releases published
36/36Release recency — latest release 3 days ago
27/27Release cadence — a release every ~0.5 days
0/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
Inputs used
releases_count100
latest_release_tagv1.12.269
releases_from_tagsno
days_since_latest_release3
mean_days_between_releases0.5

Community & Adoption

Does the project have users, downloads, attention, and a welcoming setup for contributors?

57Moderate · 17% of overall

Popularity & adoption

42Weak
How it's scored
34.9/60Stars — 142 stars
7.5/25Forks — 9 forks
0/15Watchers — 2 watchers
Inputs used
forks9
stars142
watchers2
growth_stateunverified
growth_factor_pct100
growth_unverified_reasonno_history

Community health

50Moderate
How it's scored
22.5/22.5README
22.5/22.5License — recognized license (MIT)
0/18CONTRIBUTING guide
0/13.5Code of conduct
0/7.2Issue template
0/6.3PR template
Inputs used
has_readmeyes
has_licenseyes
readme_badges0
has_contributingno
has_issue_templateno
has_code_of_conductno
readme_badge_services—
has_pull_request_templateno

Ecosystem adoption (downloads)

91Excellent
How it's scored
72.4/80Monthly downloads — 267,577 downloads/month across pypi
0/20Registry dependents — not reported by this ecosystem
Inputs used
packagesabx-dl
dependents—
ecosystemspypi
total_downloads—
monthly_downloads267,577
unverified_packages_excluded—
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Registry dependents. Remaining weights renormalized.

Sustainability & Governance

Will the project survive its people — bus factor, responsiveness, who backs it, and package upkeep?

63Moderate · 23% of overall

Maintainer resilience (bus factor)

24At Risk
How it's scored
9/54Bus factor — 1 contributor(s) cover half of all commits
2.2/22.5Commit distribution — top contributor authored 90% of commits
2.7/13.5Contributor breadth — 2 contributors
10/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Contributors — project has 10 contributing companies or organizations
Inputs used
bus_factor1
contributors_sampled2
top_contributor_share0.904

Issue & PR responsiveness

54Moderate
How it's scored
21/42Issue resolution — 50% of issues closed
26.2/30PR acceptance — 14/16 decided PRs merged
0/13Newcomer PR acceptance — no first-time contributor's PR decided in 30d
0/15OpenSSF Scorecard: Code-Review — Found 0/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
Inputs used
merged_prs14
open_issues1
closed_issues1
prs_merged_7d0
prs_decided_7d0
prs_merged_30d4
prs_decided_30d4
issue_closed_ratio0.5
closed_unmerged_prs2
first_time_authors_30d0
first_time_prs_merged_30d0
first_time_prs_decided_30d0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): Newcomer PR acceptance. Remaining weights renormalized.

Ownership & stewardship

91Excellent
How it's scored
30/30Ownership backing — organization-owned
20/20Verified domain
19.5/25Owner reach — 508 followers of ArchiveBox
21.6/25Track record — 23 public repos, account ~5 yr old
Inputs used
followers508
owner_typeOrganization
is_verifiedyes
owner_loginArchiveBox
public_repos23
account_age_days2,118

Package maintenance

100Exceptional
How it's scored
25/25Published & resolvable — 1 package(s) on pypi
35/35Publish recency — latest publish 3 days ago
20/20Version history — 534 published versions
20/20Not deprecated — active, not deprecated or yanked
Inputs used
packagesabx-dl
ecosystemspypi
any_deprecatedno
min_days_since_publish3

Engineering Quality

Are baseline engineering and documentation practices in place?

86Excellent · 19% of overall

Engineering practices

94Exceptional
How it's scored
24/24CI workflows — 5 workflow(s)
24/24Tests present
16/16Linter config — pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff])
9.6/9.6Pre-commit hooks
0/6.4.editorconfig
20/20OpenSSF Scorecard: CI-Tests — 1 out of 1 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
Inputs used
has_ciyes
has_testsyes
has_editorconfigno
has_linter_configyes
has_precommit_configyes

Documentation

75Good
How it's scored
30/30README
0/25Documentation directory
15/15Documentation / homepage site — https://abx-dl.archivebox.io
10/10Repository description
10/10Topics — 18 topics
10/10Wiki
Inputs used
topicsarchivebox, chrome, crawling, curl, downloader, gallery-dl, headless, internet-archiving, playwright, puppeteer, scraping, wget, youtube-dl, yt-dlp, cli-tool, cli, http-client, ai-scraping
has_wikiyes
homepagehttps://abx-dl.archivebox.io
docs_sitehttps://abx-dl.archivebox.io
has_readmeyes
has_docs_dirno
has_descriptionyes

Security

Are visible security and supply-chain practices strong, without unresolved high-risk jurisdiction exposure?

62Moderate · 16% of overall

Security posture

53Moderate
How it's scored
7.5/7.5Binary-Artifacts — no binaries found in the repo
0/7.5Branch-Protection — branch protection not enabled on development/release branches
2.5/2.5CI-Tests — 1 out of 1 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0/2.5CII-Best-Practices — no effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0/7.5Code-Review — Found 0/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
2.5/2.5Contributors — project has 10 contributing companies or organizations
10/10Dangerous-Workflow — no dangerous workflow patterns detected
7.5/7.5Dependency-Update-Tool — update tool detected
0/5Fuzzing — project is not fuzzed
2.5/2.5License — license file detected
7.5/7.5Maintained — 30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
5/5Packaging — packaging workflow detected
3.5/5Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7
0/5SAST — SAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0/5Security-Policy — security policy file not detected
0/7.5Signed-Releases — Project has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0/7.5Token-Permissions — detected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
6.8/7.5Vulnerabilities — 1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Inputs used
sourceopenssf_scorecard
checks_evaluated18
scorecard_versionv5.5.0
checks_inconclusive0
scorecard_aggregate5.3

Dependency advisories

100Exceptional
How it's scored
35/35Direct dependencies free of known advisories — no direct dependency carries a known advisory
25/25Indirect dependencies free of known advisories — no indirect dependency carries a known advisory
0/40No advisories left outstanding — no advisory carries a publication date
Inputs used
sourceosv
advisories0
affected_packages0
assessed_packages26
unassessed_packages0
affected_by_severitynone
direct_affected_packages0
Excluded from scoring (no data or not applicable): No advisories left outstanding. Remaining weights renormalized. Matched the pypi:abx-dl@1.12.269 runtime dependency closure — what installing the published package pulls in — 26 packages. Reachability is not analyzed.

AI Readiness

How well is the repo equipped to be developed and maintained with AI coding agents? Carries a deliberately small weight (4%): agent tooling is a real maintenance signal, but a repository with none can still reach 100/100.

51Moderate · 4% of overall

Agent context & guidance

51Moderate
How it's scored
45/45Agent instructions — AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md
0/15Machine-readable docs (llms.txt)
6.4/40Legible commit history — 12 of 100 human commits state their intent (structured subject or explanatory body)
Inputs used
has_llms_txtno
llms_txt_url—
legible_history_share0.12
agent_instruction_filesAGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md
agent_instruction_max_bytes2,830

Verify loop (build / test / typecheck)

50Moderate
How it's scored
0/18One-command bootstrap
22/22Automated tests
11/11Lint / format config — pyproject.toml ([tool.ruff])
0/11Static type checking
10/10Reproducible environment — Dockerfile, lockfile
0/10Demonstrated agent practice — no agent-authored commits among the last 100
0/8Automated maintenance — no automated dependency updates observed
7/10OpenSSF Scorecard: Pinned-Dependencies — dependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7
Inputs used
has_nixno
has_testsyes
lockfilesuv.lock
has_dockerfileyes
typed_languageno
bootstrap_files—
has_devcontainerno
has_linter_configyes
typecheck_configs—
agent_commit_share0
toolchain_manifests—
dependency_bot_commit_share0

Code legibility for models

52Moderate
How it's scored
0/45Type-checkable code — Python without a type-check config
51.9/55Manageable file sizes — 2/36 source files over 60KB
Inputs used
primary_languagePython
largest_source_bytes107,818
source_files_sampled36
oversized_source_files2

Key facts

142GitHub stars
2contributors
1,184commits, last 12 months
3days since last push
100releases
1bus factor
1open issues
npm, PyPIpackage ecosystems

Data collection warnings

  • Star history unavailable: GitHub GraphQL error: Resource not accessible by personal access token

More detail

Star and fork history 0 ★ / 9 ⇿
0Stars
9Forks
74Releases

When each star and fork was added, collected from GitHub and bucketed by day. Cumulative growth sits directly above the daily additions it is made of, so the two read against each other: steady organic accretion looks nothing like an abrupt, short-lived burst. Where that difference is measurable, it is reported as growth authenticity.

0246810912024-102025-092026-09
Major 0Minor 0Patch 74

Each point covers 2 days.

OpenSSF Scorecard 5.3 / 10
5.3aggregate

Independent, tool-agnostic security assessment from the open-source OpenSSF Scorecard. Each check rewards a security practice, not a specific vendor's tool. Checks Scorecard could not determine are marked n/a and excluded from the security score (never counted as zero).Scorecard v5.5.0 · 2026-09-11 08:29 UTC

10Binary-Artifactsno binaries found in the repo
0Branch-Protectionbranch protection not enabled on development/release branches
10CI-Tests1 out of 1 merged PRs checked by a CI test -- score normalized to 10
0CII-Best-Practicesno effort to earn an OpenSSF best practices badge detected
0Code-ReviewFound 0/29 approved changesets -- score normalized to 0
10Contributorsproject has 10 contributing companies or organizations
10Dangerous-Workflowno dangerous workflow patterns detected
10Dependency-Update-Toolupdate tool detected
0Fuzzingproject is not fuzzed
10Licenselicense file detected
10Maintained30 commit(s) and 0 issue activity found in the last 90 days -- score normalized to 10
10Packagingpackaging workflow detected
7Pinned-Dependenciesdependency not pinned by hash detected -- score normalized to 7
0SASTSAST tool is not run on all commits -- score normalized to 0
0Security-Policysecurity policy file not detected
0Signed-ReleasesProject has not signed or included provenance with any releases.
0Token-Permissionsdetected GitHub workflow tokens with excessive permissions
9Vulnerabilities1 existing vulnerabilities detected
Direct dependencies 14
RegistryPackageVersion constraintManifest
npmabxbus^2.5.4abx_dl/package.json
npmpuppeteer^23.10.1abx_dl/package.json
npmpuppeteer-core^23.10.1abx_dl/package.json
npmsharp^0.33.5abx_dl/package.json
PyPIrich-click>=1.8.0pyproject.toml
PyPIrich>=13.0.0pyproject.toml
PyPIabxbus==2.5.56pyproject.toml
PyPIabxpkg==1.12.117pyproject.toml
PyPIabx-plugins==1.12.233pyproject.toml
PyPIpydantic>=2.0.0pyproject.toml
PyPIpydantic-settings>=2.0.0pyproject.toml
PyPIplatformdirs>=4.0.0pyproject.toml
PyPIrequests>=2.28.0pyproject.toml
PyPIpsutil>=7.2.1pyproject.toml
All dependencies 89

Full resolved dependency set from the GitHub dependency graph: 24 direct and 65 indirect (transitive) packages. The transitive closure is complete when the repository commits a lockfile.

RegistryPackageVersionRelation
npmabxbus^2.5.4direct
npmpuppeteer^23.10.1direct
npmpuppeteer-core^23.10.1direct
npmsharp^0.33.5direct
PyPIabx-plugins—direct
PyPIabx-plugins1.12.233direct
PyPIabxbus2.5.10direct
PyPIabxbus2.5.56direct
PyPIabxpkg—direct
PyPIabxpkg1.12.117direct
PyPIplatformdirs—direct
PyPIplatformdirs4.10.0direct
PyPIpsutil—direct
PyPIpsutil7.2.2direct
PyPIpydantic—direct
PyPIpydantic2.13.4direct
PyPIpydantic-settings—direct
PyPIpydantic-settings2.14.2direct
PyPIrequests—direct
PyPIrequests2.34.2direct
PyPIrich—direct
PyPIrich15.0.0direct
PyPIrich-click—direct
PyPIrich-click1.9.8direct
PyPIabx-dl1.12.268indirect
PyPIannotated-types0.7.0indirect
PyPIast-serialize0.6.0indirect
PyPIblinker1.9.0indirect
PyPIcertifi2026.6.17indirect
PyPIcharset-normalizer3.4.9indirect
PyPIclick8.4.2indirect
PyPIcolorama0.4.6indirect
PyPIexecnet2.1.2indirect
PyPIflake8—indirect
PyPIflake87.3.0indirect
PyPIflask—indirect
PyPIflask3.1.3indirect
PyPIidna3.18indirect
PyPIimagesize2.0.0indirect
PyPIiniconfig2.3.0indirect
PyPIitsdangerous2.2.0indirect
PyPIjambo—indirect
PyPIjinja23.1.6indirect
PyPIlibrt0.13.0indirect
PyPImarkdown-it-py4.2.0indirect
PyPImarkupsafe3.0.3indirect
PyPImccabe0.7.0indirect
PyPImdurl0.1.2indirect
PyPImypy—indirect
PyPImypy2.3.0indirect
PyPImypy-extensions1.1.0indirect
PyPInodeenv1.10.0indirect
PyPIpackaging26.2indirect
PyPIpathspec1.1.1indirect
PyPIpdm-backend2.4.9indirect
PyPIpluggy1.6.0indirect
PyPIprek—indirect
PyPIprek0.4.9indirect
PyPIpycodestyle2.14.0indirect
PyPIpydantic-core2.46.4indirect
PyPIpyflakes3.4.0indirect
PyPIpygments2.20.0indirect
PyPIpyright—indirect
PyPIpyright1.1.411indirect
PyPIpytest—indirect
PyPIpytest8.4.2indirect
PyPIpytest-codeblocks0.18.0indirect
PyPIpytest-github-actions-annotate-failures—indirect
PyPIpytest-github-actions-annotate-failures0.4.2indirect
PyPIpytest-httpserver—indirect
PyPIpytest-httpserver1.1.5indirect
PyPIpytest-sugar—indirect
PyPIpytest-sugar1.1.1indirect
PyPIpytest-timeout—indirect
PyPIpytest-timeout2.4.0indirect
PyPIpytest-xdist—indirect
PyPIpytest-xdist3.8.0indirect
PyPIpython-dotenv1.2.2indirect
PyPIruff—indirect
PyPIruff0.15.21indirect
PyPItermcolor3.3.0indirect
PyPIty—indirect
PyPIty0.0.59indirect
PyPItyping-extensions4.16.0indirect
PyPItyping-inspection0.4.2indirect
PyPIurllib32.7.0indirect
PyPIuuid70.1.0indirect
PyPIuv0.11.29indirect
PyPIwerkzeug3.1.8indirect
Dependency advisories 0

Installing pypi:abx-dl@1.12.269 pulls in 26 packages, direct and transitive: 0 carry known advisories, of which 0 are direct dependencies.

No known advisories affect the assessed dependencies.

An advisory means the version recorded in the dependency graph falls inside an advisory’s affected range. Reachability is not analysed, and the graph includes development and test pins — a finding may concern tooling rather than shipped software.

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