actions

GitHub Actions Joined Oct 2018 View on GitHub

Stars
105,080
across 77 public repos
Rank
#201
of 94,827 organizations, top 0.2%

Repositories with 50+ stars

actions's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
3,941

GitHub Actions runner images

PowerShell 13,581
4,483

Accelerating new GitHub Actions workflows

TypeScript 12,267
6,523

Action for checking out a repo

TypeScript 9,009
9,305

Kubernetes controller for GitHub Actions self-hosted runners

Go 6,641
9,786

The Runner for GitHub Actions

C# 6,387
10,733

The GitHub ToolKit for developing GitHub Actions.

TypeScript 5,903
11,395

Cache dependencies and build outputs in GitHub Actions

TypeScript 5,594
12,779

Write workflows scripting the GitHub API in JavaScript

TypeScript 5,054
12,863

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of node.js

TypeScript 5,016
15,474 TypeScript 4,254
27,052

An action for automatically labelling pull requests

TypeScript 2,511
28,111

Create a TypeScript Action with tests, linting, workflow, publishing, and versioning

TypeScript 2,418
30,202

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Python

TypeScript 2,249
33,557

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Java

TypeScript 2,028
35,361 TypeScript 1,928
38,545

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Go

TypeScript 1,775
39,600

Marks issues and pull requests that have not had recent interaction

TypeScript 1,730
49,486

An Action to create releases via the GitHub Release API

JavaScript 1,383
55,649

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of the .NET core sdk

TypeScript 1,218
56,775

Create a JavaScript Action with tests, linting, workflow, publishing, and versioning

JavaScript 1,192
62,236

Action for generating build provenance attestations for workflow artifacts

1,075
68,129

GitHub Action to publish artifacts to GitHub Pages for deployments

JavaScript 969
70,525

A GitHub Action for detecting vulnerable dependencies and invalid licenses in your PRs

TypeScript 934
72,025

GitHub Action for creating a GitHub App Installation Access Token

JavaScript 913
72,858

An action for filtering pull requests and issues from first-time contributors

TypeScript 902
89,100

Automate adding issues and pull requests to GitHub projects

TypeScript 728
89,891

An Action to upload a release asset via the GitHub Release API

JavaScript 721
119,881

An action for calling AI models with GitHub Models

TypeScript 526
120,736

A composite action for packaging and uploading an artifact that can be deployed to GitHub Pages.

Shell 522
138,709 TypeScript 446
177,652

A GitHub (gh) CLI extension to manage the GitHub Actions caches being used in a GitHub repository.

Go 337
188,871

A template to demonstrate how to build a JavaScript action.

JavaScript 314
222,849

Example workflows using service containers

JavaScript 259
229,426

An action to enable Pages and extract various metadata about a site. It can also be used to configure various static site generators we support as starter workflows.

JavaScript 250
235,790

Python builds for Actions Runner Images

PowerShell 242
243,306

About GitHub Actions runner images provided by 3rd parties

233
255,115 Shell 220
264,061

Go client for GitHub Actions Runner Scale Set APIs - build custom autoscaling solutions for self-hosted runners

Go 211
281,858

Language services for GitHub Actions workflows and expressions.

TypeScript 195
291,811

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Ruby

TypeScript 187
294,371

Action for generating attestations for workflow artifacts

TypeScript 185
298,420

A template to demonstrate how to build a Docker action.

Dockerfile 182
304,007

GitHub Action for interacting with Heroku

HCL 178
325,464

Template repo for creating container actions using https://github.com/actions/toolkit/

TypeScript 164
330,611

This tool allows GHES administrators to sync Actions to their instances

Go 161
337,459

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with OTP and Elixir

JavaScript 157
339,266

Runner Container Hooks for GitHub Actions

TypeScript 156
395,913

A GitHub Action used for publishing an Action to ghcr.io as an OCI container.

TypeScript 129
406,108

Wraps actions-toolkit into an Action for common GitHub automations.

JavaScript 125
416,688

Node builds for Actions Runner Images

PowerShell 121
416,688

A simple GitHub Action for producing Jekyll build artifacts compatible with GitHub Pages.

HTML 121
465,937

Upload code coverage report from your GitHub Actions workflow

Python 105
512,299 93
521,203

Reusable workflows for developing actions

JavaScript 91
525,770

GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan and automate the migration of Azure DevOps, Bamboo, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions.

Ruby 90
540,157

Calculates dependencies for a Go build-target and submits the list to the Dependency Submission API

TypeScript 87
583,124

A lightweight HTTP client optimized for use with actions, TypeScript with generics and async await.

TypeScript 79
607,098

Set up your GitHub Actions workflow with a specific version of Haskell (GHC and Cabal)

TypeScript 75
679,495

GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan and automate the migration of Azure DevOps, Bamboo, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions.

Ruby 65
687,767 Shell 64
704,714

Go releases for Actions Runner Images

PowerShell 62
723,106 TypeScript 60

Among 94,827 organizations

100k–160k stars: 104 organizations, including actions

Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale

Where the stars are

Languages

  1. TypeScript 67.8k stars, 65% · 30 repos
  2. PowerShell 14k stars, 13% · 4 repos
  3. Go 7.4k stars, 7% · 4 repos
  4. C# 6.4k stars, 6% · 1 repo
  5. JavaScript 6.4k stars, 6% · 11 repos
  6. Shell 806 stars, 1% · 3 repos
  7. Dockerfile 182 stars, <1% · 1 repo
  8. HCL 178 stars, <1% · 1 repo

and 3 more languages

When they were made

62 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2018 and 2026

Quick stats

Next rank
+459 stars to reach #200
Next milestone
+85,645 stars to reach the top 0.1%
Public repos
77, 62 with 50+ stars
Popular repos
21 over 1k stars, 2 over 10k stars
Top repo
runner-images, #3,941 of all repos, 13% of stars
Smaller repos
208 stars from repos under 50

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