BookBounty
Retrieve missing Readarr books from Library Genesis.
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Still maintained? Yes: 2 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v0.2.15 (Aug 2026).
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At a glance
BookBounty quick facts
- Health score
- 57/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 295
- Last commit
- 2 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- v0.2.15, Aug 2026
- Licence
- MPL-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "BookBounty is a tool for finding missing Readarr books."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
BookBounty scores 57/100, #22 of 32 in Automation: 2 commits in the last 90 days earn 2.3 of 35 points, the latest release (v0.2.15, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 295 stars add 9.9 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 32.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 2.3 / 35
2 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v0.2.15 released 2 months ago
- Stars 9.9 / 20
295 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 2
- Last 90 days
- 5
- Last 12 months
- 2 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #22 of 32 tools in Automation by health , between Mylar3 (#21) and Dittofeed (#23) .
Details
| Licence | MPL-2.0 |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v0.2.15 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 295 |
| Open issues | 0 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | TheWicklowWolf/BookBounty ↗ |
BookBounty vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with BookBounty (Automation), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Airflow | 99 | 47k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Activepieces | 98 | 25k | MIT | today |
| changedetection.io | 98 | 35k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Kestra | 98 | 30k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Gotenberg | 97 | 13k | MIT | today |
| BookBounty (this tool) | 57 | 295 | MPL-2.0 | 2 months ago |
BookBounty: common questions
Is BookBounty still maintained?
BookBounty had 2 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 months ago; the latest tagged release, v0.2.15, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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