github
GitHub Joined May 2008 View on GitHub
- Stars
- 761,810
- across 427 public repos
- Rank
- #8
- of 94,827 organizations, top 0.01%
Repositories with 50+ stars
| Rank | Repository | Language | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | A collection of useful .gitignore templates | 176,438 | |
| 65 | 💫 Toolkit to help you get started with SDD or any other process! | Python | 149,145 |
| 740 | Community-contributed instructions, agents, skills, and configurations to help you make the most of GitHub Copilot. | JavaScript | 41,001 |
| 1,010 | GitHub's official MCP Server | Go | 34,361 |
| 1,934 | Documentation for GitHub Copilot | 23,159 | |
| 2,168 | The open-source repo for docs.github.com | TypeScript | 21,409 |
| 3,203 | 📚 Community guides for open source creators | HTML | 15,792 |
| 3,915 | GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL | Go | 13,639 |
| 4,746 | Neovim plugin for GitHub Copilot | Vim Script | 11,709 |
| 4,872 | GitHub Copilot CLI brings the power of Copilot coding agent directly to your terminal. | Python | 11,392 |
| 5,332 | Multi-platform SDK for integrating GitHub Copilot Agent into apps and services | Java | 10,674 |
| 5,535 | CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security | CodeQL | 10,336 |
| 6,495 | Parsing, analyzing, and comparing source code across many languages | Haskell | 9,041 |
| 6,567 | GitHub public roadmap | 8,968 | |
| 7,763 | A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths. | Ruby | 7,783 |
| 7,980 | Code that'll help you kickstart a personal website that showcases your work as a software developer. | HTML | 7,609 |
| 9,671 | Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent... | DIGITAL Command Language | 6,441 |
| 9,800 | AI coding assistant for Xcode | Swift | 6,381 |
| 10,412 | Determines which markup library to use to render a content file (e.g. README) on GitHub | Ruby | 6,057 |
| 11,354 | GitHub Agentic Workflows | Go | 5,609 |
| 12,510 | Open source courseware for Git and GitHub | HTML | 5,150 |
| 13,053 | Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub | Ruby | 4,955 |
| 13,666 | **Archived** Style guide & coding conventions for Swift projects | 4,751 | |
| 14,394 | Emoji images and names. | Ruby | 4,539 |
| 15,542 | A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project | HTML | 4,236 |
| 15,706 | Mona Sans, a variable font from GitHub | Shell | 4,193 |
| 16,077 | Compute various size metrics for a Git repository, flagging those that might cause problems | Go | 4,102 |
| 16,275 | Web component extensions to the standard <time> element. | JavaScript | 4,059 |
| 18,966 | DEPRECATED, see https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts/issues/1113 for details - optional scripts for hubot, opt in via hubot-scripts.json | CoffeeScript | 3,528 |
| 19,906 | Squad: AI agent teams for any project | TypeScript | 3,373 |
| 20,371 | Trigger an action on an element with a keyboard shortcut. | JavaScript | 3,301 |
| 20,478 | Set of boilerplate scripts describing the normalized script pattern that GitHub uses in its projects. | Shell | 3,284 |
| 20,816 | Manages application of security headers with many safe defaults | Ruby | 3,231 |
| 21,072 | Text of government takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. | 3,191 | |
| 21,601 | The GitHub Archive Program & Arctic Code Vault | 3,122 | |
| 22,561 | EJS | 2,994 | |
| 23,230 | Learn how to get started using the GitHub Copilot CLI! | Tape | 2,914 |
| 23,307 | GitHub's Web Component collection. | JavaScript | 2,905 |
| 24,743 | Continuous integration server built on top of Jenkins and Hubot | Ruby | 2,743 |
| 26,661 | Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software. | 2,550 | |
| 26,957 | GitHub Extension for Visual Studio | C# | 2,521 |
| 27,620 | Guidance for changing the default branch name for GitHub repositories | 2,457 | |
| 27,633 | GitHub Load Balancer Director and supporting tooling. | C | 2,456 |
| 27,808 | Datasets, tools, and benchmarks for representation learning of code. | Jupyter Notebook | 2,443 |
| 29,665 | The GitHub Copilot app is an agent-native desktop experience for finding, running, steering, and landing software work across your GitHub repositories. | 2,288 | |
| 30,202 | GitHub's employee intellectual property agreement, open sourced and reusable | 2,249 | |
| 30,234 | Software U2F authenticator for macOS | Swift | 2,247 |
| 30,984 | Collaborative development on GitHub's site policies, procedures, and guidelines | 2,195 | |
| 31,099 | A public place for all platform sample projects. | Shell | 2,188 |
| 31,436 | Client side accessibility error scanner. | JavaScript | 2,164 |
| 33,521 | Gather, curate, and feature stories of public servants and civic hackers using GitHub as part of their open government innovations | HTML | 2,030 |
| 34,634 | Hubot Sans, a variable font from GitHub | Shell | 1,967 |
| 36,144 | Legacy GitHub Services Integration | Ruby | 1,888 |
| 36,421 | A simple Ruby Gem to bootstrap dependencies for setting up and maintaining a local Jekyll environment in sync with GitHub Pages | Ruby | 1,874 |
| 37,336 | GitHub resources and information for the developer community in India | Ruby | 1,829 |
| 38,977 | GitHub Stacked PRs | Go | 1,756 |
| 41,008 | Actions for running CodeQL analysis | TypeScript | 1,670 |
| 41,214 | **Archived** Style guide & coding conventions for Objective-C projects | 1,661 | |
| 41,486 | An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API | 1,650 | |
| 41,716 | Resources related to GitHub Security Lab | C | 1,641 |
| 42,172 | A site that displays up to date COVID-19 stats, powered by fastpages. | Jupyter Notebook | 1,623 |
| 43,696 | Crawl a website and run it through Google lighthouse | JavaScript | 1,567 |
| 44,944 | Press the . key on any repo | 1,523 | |
| 47,648 | Catalyst is a set of patterns and techniques for developing components within a complex application. | TypeScript | 1,437 |
| 49,774 | A GitHub CLI extension to generate a 3D model of your GitHub contribution history | Go | 1,374 |
| 51,056 | GitHub Developer site | Ruby | 1,338 |
| 53,433 | GitHub Enterprise Backup Utilities | 1,274 | |
| 54,667 | Community health files for the @GitHub organization | 1,242 | |
| 54,870 | GitHub Actions Importer helps you plan and automate the migration of Azure DevOps, Bamboo, Bitbucket, CircleCI, GitLab, Jenkins, and Travis CI pipelines to GitHub Actions. | C# | 1,237 |
| 55,036 | 🚲 Contribute to the open source community every Friday | HTML | 1,233 |
| 57,554 | A Statsd-compatible metrics aggregator | C | 1,174 |
| 58,466 | Ask for assistance right in your terminal. | 1,154 | |
| 60,259 | Cocoa framework for improving AppKit | Objective-C | 1,116 |
| 65,197 | Binaries for the CodeQL CLI | 1,020 | |
| 69,914 | Welcome to GitHub's Green Software Directory! | 943 | |
| 71,730 | Explore machine learning and data science with Codespaces | Jupyter Notebook | 917 |
| 74,794 | Rust implementation of stack graphs | Rust | 877 |
| 82,837 | 🔏 A small WebAuthn API wrapper that translates to/from pure JSON using base64url. | TypeScript | 787 |
| 82,837 | Recursos e informações do GitHub para a comunidade tech do Brasil. | Ruby | 787 |
| 85,042 | A modal dialog that's opened with <details>. | JavaScript | 765 |
| 86,218 | Helping open source program offices get started | 754 | |
| 88,547 | EXPERIMENTAL password management app. Don't use this. | Ruby | 733 |
| 88,654 | freno: cooperative, highly available throttler service | Go | 732 |
| 91,265 | Small library to parse plain text email content | Ruby | 709 |
| 92,231 | A collection of Ruby libraries for working with SQL on top of ActiveRecord's connection | Ruby | 701 |
| 96,027 | Code style checking for GitHub's Ruby projects | Ruby | 670 |
| 96,277 | GitHub Actions extension for VS Code | TypeScript | 668 |
| 96,536 | GitHub's ops focused Elasticsearch library | Go | 666 |
| 96,922 | An S/MIME signing utility for use with Git | Go | 663 |
| 104,664 | A menu opened with <details>. | JavaScript | 610 |
| 106,288 | Starter workspace to use with the CodeQL extension for Visual Studio Code. | CodeQL | 600 |
| 107,716 | Official GitHub Maven Plugins | Java | 591 |
| 108,557 | Enabling Branch Deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions - If you find this project useful, give it a star! ⭐️ | TypeScript | 586 |
| 109,278 | Replaced by https://github.com/github/scientist | Ruby | 582 |
| 109,973 | GitHub Innovation Graph | Python | 578 |
| 110,690 | JavaScript | 574 | |
| 111,758 | A client-side includes tag. | JavaScript | 568 |
| 115,256 | An extension for Visual Studio Code that adds rich language support for CodeQL | TypeScript | 549 |
| 115,431 | 548 | ||
| 118,031 | The Open Source Survey | 535 |
Among 94,827 organizations
630k–1m stars: 7 organizations, including github
Stars along the bottom, and organizations in each band on a log scale
Where the stars are
Languages
- Python 162k stars, 21% · 9 repos
- Go 64.8k stars, 9% · 23 repos
- JavaScript 64.3k stars, 8% · 57 repos
- Ruby 43.7k stars, 6% · 38 repos
- HTML 37.7k stars, 5% · 14 repos
- TypeScript 35k stars, 5% · 31 repos
- Shell 12.1k stars, 2% · 8 repos
- Vim Script 11.7k stars, 2% · 1 repo
and 15 more languages
When they were made
100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2009 and 2026
Quick stats
- Next rank
- +2,001 stars to reach #7
- Public repos
- 427, 269 with 50+ stars
- Popular repos
- 12 over 10k stars, 2 over 100k stars
- Top repo
- gitignore, #50 of all repos, 23% of stars
- Smaller repos
- 3,697 stars from repos under 50