diff --git a/docs/configuration.rst b/docs/configuration.rst
index 896ccc4c..577a7512 100644
--- a/docs/configuration.rst
+++ b/docs/configuration.rst
@@ -605,6 +605,27 @@ Description
     and its parsed form as ``"{gdl_http[date]}"``.
 
 
+extractor.*.version-metadata
+----------------------------
+Type
+    ``string``
+Default
+    ``null``
+Description
+    Insert an ``object`` containing gallery-dl's version info into
+    metadata dictionaries as the given name.
+
+    The content of the object is as follows:
+
+    .. code:: json
+
+        {
+            "version"         : "string",
+            "is_executable"   : "bool",
+            "current_git_head": "string or null"
+        }
+
+
 extractor.*.category-transfer
 -----------------------------
 Type
diff --git a/gallery_dl/job.py b/gallery_dl/job.py
index 1f654380..e1a67671 100644
--- a/gallery_dl/job.py
+++ b/gallery_dl/job.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import logging
 import functools
 import collections
 from . import extractor, downloader, postprocessor
-from . import config, text, util, path, formatter, output, exception
+from . import config, text, util, path, formatter, output, exception, version
 from .extractor.message import Message
 from .output import stdout_write
 
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ class Job():
 
         self.metadata_url = extr.config("url-metadata")
         self.metadata_http = extr.config("http-metadata")
+
+        version_info = extr.config("version-metadata")
         metadata_path = extr.config("path-metadata")
 
         # user-supplied metadata
@@ -63,6 +65,12 @@ class Job():
             self.kwdict.update(kwdict)
         if metadata_path:
             self.kwdict[metadata_path] = path_proxy
+        if version_info:
+            self.kwdict[version_info] = {
+                "version"         : version.__version__,
+                "is_executable"   : getattr(sys, "frozen", False),
+                "current_git_head": util.git_head()
+            }
 
         # predicates
         self.pred_url = self._prepare_predicates("image", True)