webtorrent/webtorrent

Maintenance

Slowing

Human commits, 30 days

0

Human commits, 90 days

1

Human commits, 365 days

17

Bot share of commits, 365 days

84%

Last commit

Sep 29, 2026 (15 days ago)

Last human commit

Sep 13, 2026 (1 month ago)

Authors, 90 days

1

Last release

Jul 27, 2026 (2 months ago)

Median PR merge time

11 hours

Responsiveness: of 4 recent issues, n/a got a maintainer reply. Median first response: n/a.

• Most commits in the last year come from bots.
• Only 4 recent issues can be checked for a response, too few to measure response time.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Owner

Organization

Commits sampled

17 since Oct 14, 2025

Authors for half of commits

1

Authors for 80% of commits

2

Contributors

167

Top committers

• ThaUnknown: 59% of commits
• DiegoRBaquero: 24% of commits
• Blank-FS: 6% of commits
• phocks: 6% of commits
• Weedshaker: 6% of commits

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Organic, confidence high

Bursts

• Mar 27, 2014 to Mar 28, 2014: about 58 more stars than usual, peak 43 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 7, 2014 to Sep 10, 2014: about 103 more stars than usual, peak 57 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 12, 2014 to Sep 18, 2014: about 338 more stars than usual, peak 194 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Oct 28, 2014 to Oct 30, 2014: about 169 more stars than usual, peak 116 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Apr 19, 2015 to Apr 22, 2015: about 282 more stars than usual, peak 156 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• May 19, 2015 to May 22, 2015: about 350 more stars than usual, peak 171 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Nov 21, 2015 to Nov 27, 2015: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 412 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Dec 13, 2015 to Dec 17, 2015: about 406 more stars than usual, peak 208 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jan 17, 2016 to Jan 21, 2016: about 547 more stars than usual, peak 299 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 6, 2016 to Apr 11, 2016: about 463 more stars than usual, peak 197 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Sep 16, 2016 to Sep 19, 2016: about 76 more stars than usual, peak 32 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 11, 2017 to Apr 13, 2017: about 90 more stars than usual, peak 40 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Apr 9, 2019 to Apr 12, 2019: about 165 more stars than usual, peak 105 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Aug 16, 2021 to Aug 22, 2021: about 249 more stars than usual, peak 162 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 2, 2021 to Nov 11, 2021: about 365 more stars than usual, peak 118 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
• Nov 29, 2022 to Dec 1, 2022: about 63 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
• Jul 7, 2026 to Jul 9, 2026: about 230 more stars than usual, peak 113 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.

• 2 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

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now

MIT (OSI-approved)

A year ago

MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

• webtorrent (NPM): latest 3.0.21, published Jul 27, 2026
  Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.3 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: webtorrent/webtorrent, deps.dev: npm webtorrent