diff --git a/devscripts/show-downloads-statistics.py b/devscripts/show-downloads-statistics.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import json
+import os
+import re
+import sys
+
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
+
+from youtube_dl.compat import (
+    compat_print,
+    compat_urllib_request,
+)
+from youtube_dl.utils import format_bytes
+
+
+def format_size(bytes):
+    return '%s (%d bytes)' % (format_bytes(bytes), bytes)
+
+
+total_bytes = 0
+
+releases = json.loads(compat_urllib_request.urlopen(
+    'https://api.github.com/repos/rg3/youtube-dl/releases').read().decode('utf-8'))
+
+for release in releases:
+    compat_print(release['name'])
+    for asset in release['assets']:
+        asset_name = asset['name']
+        total_bytes += asset['download_count'] * asset['size']
+        if all(not re.match(p, asset_name) for p in (
+                r'^youtube-dl$',
+                r'^youtube-dl-\d{4}\.\d{2}\.\d{2}(?:\.\d+)?\.tar\.gz$',
+                r'^youtube-dl\.exe$')):
+            continue
+        compat_print(
+            ' %s size: %s downloads: %d'
+            % (asset_name, format_size(asset['size']), asset['download_count']))
+
+compat_print('total downloads traffic: %s' % format_size(total_bytes))