Medusa
Medusa is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Media Management category, licensed GPL-3.0 and written mainly in Python. It has 1,992 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 18, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 1,992
- Forks
- 286
- Open issues
- 429
- Commits, last 12 months
- 79
- Last commit
- Oct 18, 2026
- Latest release
- v1.0.27Oct 18, 2026
- Created
- Feb 23, 2016
- License
- GPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 18, 2026, 79 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases4 releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 18, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 79 |
| Latest release | v1.0.27 (Oct 18, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 4 |
| Releases, all time | 130 |
| Open issues | 429 |
| Open pull requests | 29 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Feb 23, 2016 |
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About Medusa
Automatic Video library manager for TV Shows. It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows, and when they are posted it does its magic.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/pymedusa/Medusa.
Topics
- episodes
- medusa
- nzb
- mediainfo
- subtitle
- shows
- trakt
- metadata
- torrent
- tv
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Is Medusa free and open source?
Yes. Medusa is open-source software released under the GPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Medusa with Docker?
Medusa does not list an official Docker image. It installs natively (Python), so follow the install steps in its README or look for a community-maintained container.
What are the best alternatives to Medusa?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Medusa include Sonarr, MeTube and Radarr.
Is Medusa actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Medusa was on Oct 18, 2026 with 79 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v1.0.27, published Oct 18, 2026. It had 429 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.