sampotts/plyr
Deprecated in favour of Video.js 10; security updates only. Simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player.
30k stars · 3.1k forks · JavaScript
Avoid
Avoid: the main package is marked deprecated.
Why
- The npm package plyr is marked deprecated by its publisher. (source 1, source 2)
- One person wrote 85% of human commits in the last year, so the project depends on them continuing. (source 1, source 2)
What would change this
- The publisher removes the deprecation notice.
- A second person takes a substantial share of commits.
Maintenance
CompleteActive
- Human commits, 30 days
- 22
- Human commits, 90 days
- 25
- Human commits, 365 days
- 27
- Bot share of commits, 365 days
- 7%
- Last commit
- Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Last human commit
- Oct 7, 2026 (7 days ago)
- Authors, 90 days
- 4
- Last release
- Oct 6, 2026 (9 days ago)
- Median PR merge time
- 9 days
Responsiveness: of 2 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.
- Only 2 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.
Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues
People
Complete- Owner
- Personal account
- Commits sampled
- 27 since Oct 14, 2025
- Authors for half of commits
- 1
- Authors for 80% of commits
- 1
- Contributors
- 184
Top committers
- sampotts: 85% of commits
- mihar-22: 7% of commits
- Guru Prasad Srinivasa: 4% of commits
- hamedniroomand: 4% of commits
Sources: Commits, Contributors
Stars
CompleteOrganic, confidence high
Bursts
- May 15, 2016 to Jun 3, 2016: about 2.9k more stars than usual, peak 654 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Apr 17, 2018 to Apr 19, 2018: about 55 more stars than usual, peak 36 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Sep 5, 2019 to Sep 11, 2019: about 239 more stars than usual, peak 94 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Aug 30, 2021 to Aug 31, 2021: about 52 more stars than usual, peak 49 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Feb 20, 2022 to Mar 4, 2022: about 363 more stars than usual, peak 89 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Jun 26, 2024 to Jul 1, 2024: about 254 more stars than usual, peak 128 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
- Dec 20, 2024 to Dec 24, 2024: about 78 more stars than usual, peak 34 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 5, 2025 to Jan 8, 2025: about 141 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Jan 13, 2025 to Jan 17, 2025: about 750 more stars than usual, peak 339 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- Feb 14, 2025 to Feb 15, 2025: about 60 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
- 1 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).
Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.
- The star history looks organic.
Sources: How star history is analyzed
Risk
CompleteFlags
- High: deps.dev marks the npm package plyr as deprecated. Details
- Info: The OpenSSF Scorecard for this project is 3.1 out of 10 (deps.dev). Details
License
- Now
- MIT (OSI-approved)
- A year ago
- MIT (OSI-approved)
Packages
- plyr (NPM): latest 3.8.5, published Oct 6, 2026 · deprecated
Advisories for the latest version: none listed
Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.
OpenSSF Scorecard: 3.1 out of 10 (via deps.dev).
Sources: GitHub: sampotts/plyr, deps.dev: npm plyr
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- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
- Oct 14, 2026: Avoid
Computed 11 hours ago · method 2026.10.2