nefarious
Automate downloading Movies and TV Shows.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 8 commits in the last 90 days.
Comparisons in Media Management: Sonarr Cloud alternatives.
At a glance
nefarious quick facts
- Health score
- 32/100 STALE
- Stars
- 1,303
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "nefarious is a web application that automatically downloads Movies and TV Shows."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
nefarious scores 32/100, #29 of 30 in Media Management: 8 commits in the last 90 days earn 9.3 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 1,303 stars add 12.5 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the stale band (below 40). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 25.7 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 9.3 / 35
8 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 12.5 / 20
1.3k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 8
- Last 90 days
- 28
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #29 of 30 tools in Media Management by health , between Pinchflat (#28) and ydl_api_ng (#30) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 1,303 |
| Open issues | 21 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | lardbit/nefarious ↗ |
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nefarious: common questions
Is nefarious still maintained?
nefarious had 8 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.