simonw

Simon Willison Joined May 2008 17,778 followers View on GitHub

Stars
66,535
across 660 public repos
Rank
#205
of 323,845 users, top 0.06%
Down 4 places this week

Repositories with 50+ stars

simonw's repositories with their overall rank
RankRepositoryLanguageStars
4,269

Access large language models from the command-line

Python 12,752
4,789

An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data

Python 11,575
24,225

Concatenate a directory full of files into a single prompt for use with LLMs

Python 2,804
26,185

A CLI utility for taking screenshots of websites, recording video demos and scraping sites using JavaScript

Python 2,600
30,982

Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases

Python 2,196
35,312

Assorted useful tools, almost entirely generated using LLMs

HTML 1,931
39,619

Tools for publishing transcripts for Claude Code sessions

Python 1,730
46,680

Today I Learned

HTML 1,469
54,385

Create executable documents that demonstrate an agent's work

Go 1,250
70,166

Convert CSV files into a SQLite database

Python 940
70,703

The contents of /mnt/skills in Claude's code interpreter environment

932
81,447

Research projects

Rust 802
85,545

CLI tool for interacting with the web

Go 761
126,325

CLI tool for exporting tables or queries from any SQL database to a SQLite file

Python 496
130,279

Use LLM to generate and execute commands in your shell

Python 479
132,237

Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries

Python 471
133,779

LLM plugin to access Google's Gemini family of models

Python 465
138,229

https://simonwillison.net/2020/Jul/10/self-updating-profile-readme/

Python 448
142,458

The source code behind my blog

Python 433
147,541

Cookiecutter template for creating new Click command-line tools

Python 416
148,535

Datasette running in your browser using WebAssembly and Pyodide

CSS 413
149,873

Count and truncate text based on tokens

Python 409
157,284

LLM plugin for models hosted by OpenRouter

Python 387
162,521

Cutting-edge web scraping techniques workshop at NICAR 2025

373
165,266

CLI tool for stripping tags from HTML

Python 366
174,554

Python CLI tool and library for diffing CSV and JSON files

Python 344
186,351

Find the Python code for specified symbols

Python 319
201,675

LLM plugin for interacting with the Claude 3 family of models

Python 291
217,906

Plugin for LLM adding support for the GPT4All collection of models

Python 266
218,613

Template repository for setting up shot-scraper

265
223,630

A tool for creating credentials for accessing S3 buckets

Python 258
225,715

Utilities functions for node.js that borrow some useful concepts from Django

JavaScript 255
227,938

LLM access to models by Anthropic, including the Claude series

Python 252
228,680

Support for MLX models in LLM

Python 251
242,522

Save OpenAI API results to a SQLite database

Python 234
244,219

Opinionated cookiecutter template for creating a new Python library

Python 232
247,827

Tools for analyzing Git history using SQLite

Python 228
254,269

LLM benchmark: Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle

Shell 221
254,269

Recovered cia.gov/the-world-factbook/about/archives/download/factbook-2020.zip from Internet Archive

HTML 221
257,091

LLM plugin providing access to Mistral models using the Mistral API

Python 218
259,038

Tracking fire data from www.fire.ca.gov

216
279,531

Prices of various LLMs

HTML 197
280,725

Write and execute jq programs with the help of LLM

Python 196
284,364

LLM plugin for running models using MLC

Python 193
290,586

A tool for creating a repository of transcribed videos

Python 188
295,793

Ultra simple API for geocoding a single string against various web services.

Python 184
308,393

Python library for running a MicroPython sandbox using WebAssembly

Python 175
311,313

JavaScript port of EmilStenstrom/justhtml

JavaScript 173
316,025

CLI tool for running text through OpenAI Text to speech

Python 170
325,500

A modern library for integrating OpenID with Django - incomplete, but really nearly there (promise)

Python 164
325,500

Create a SQLite database containing metadata from Google Drive

Python 164
346,538

async alternatives to browser alert() and prompt() and confirm()

JavaScript 152
360,103

Experimental .transform(fn) method for Django QuerySets, for clever lazily evaluated optimisations.

Python 145
360,103

LLM plugin for running models using llama.cpp

Python 145
364,293

The official project website for Datasette

HTML 143
366,332

Tools for dumping/loading a SQLite database to diffable directory structure

Python 142
368,455

A memcached backed rate limiting decorator for Django.

Python 141
377,324

The Datasette macOS application

JavaScript 137
377,324

Wrap Go binaries in Python wheels

Python 137
379,586

Export Airtable data to YAML, JSON or SQLite files on disk

Python 136
381,797

Syntactic sugar for creating Python command line scripts by introspecting a function definition

Python 135
384,080

Template repository for setting up a new git scraper

Shell 134
384,080

CLI tool for exploring an MCP server

Python 134
391,074

Turtles all the way down

Python 131
395,945

Track changes to SQLite tables using triggers

Python 129
400,912

An API for identifying cougars v.s. bobcats v.s. other USA cat species

Jupyter Notebook 127
400,912

LLM plugin for pulling content from Hacker News

Python 127
406,117

Download ESM modules from npm and jsdelivr

Python 125
406,117

Generate captions for images with Salesforce BLIP

Python 125
411,292

Copilot-assisted Advent of Code 2022 to learn Rust

Rust 123
413,988

Tools for running OCR against files stored in S3

Python 122
413,988

A plugin system for Django

Python 122
430,814

Access OpenAI models via an existing Codex subscription

Python 116
439,944

A geographical community site for Django developers.

Python 113
446,215

Datasette plugin providing an automatic GraphQL API for your SQLite databases

Python 111
446,215 Shell 111
465,950

Codespaces with LLM pre-configured using GitHub models

105
465,950

Scan for secrets in files you plan to share

Python 105
476,973

Datasette plugin that shows a map for any data with latitude/longitude columns

JavaScript 102
476,973 Objective-C 102
476,973

SwiftUI presentation software, every slide is a URL

Swift 102
480,762

Request per second / SQLop per second monitoring for Django, using Redis for storage

Python 101
508,070

CLI tool for loading markdown files into a SQLite database

Python 94
516,723

Run models distributed as GGUF files using LLM

Python 92
516,723

Unofficial documentation for GitHub Spark, generated with GitHub Spark

TypeScript 92
530,482

Scrape HN to track links from specific domains

Python 89
530,482

A simple database migration system for SQLite, based on sqlite-utils

Python 89
545,012

Run the Moebius inpainting model in the browser

TypeScript 86
560,671

Utility for converting YAML files to SQLite

Python 83
560,671

SwiftUI menu bar app for monitoring application bandwidth use

Swift 83
566,057

LLM plugin for clustering embeddings

Python 82
571,605

Web interface for searching your code using ripgrep, built as a Datasette plugin

Python 81
577,201

Script for saving a JSON archive of your tweets.

Python 80
577,201

GitHub template repository for creating new Python libraries, using the simonw/python-lib cookiecutter template

80
594,829

Generate embeddings for images and text using CLIP with LLM

Python 77
607,115

LLM plugin for embeddings using sentence-transformers

Python 75
626,824

Integration of jCrop with the Django admin

Python 72
626,824

Ask questions of your data with LLM assistance

Python 72
626,824

Keeping track of the latest versions of various GitHub Actions

Python 72
633,659

Scrape details about Code Interpreter to track any changes

Python 71

Among 323,845 users

63k–100k stars: 125 users, including simonw

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Where the stars are

Languages

  1. Python 48.7k stars, 73% · 100 repos
  2. HTML 4k stars, 6% · 6 repos
  3. Go 2k stars, 3% · 2 repos
  4. JavaScript 1k stars, 2% · 8 repos
  5. Rust 925 stars, 1% · 2 repos
  6. Shell 593 stars, 1% · 5 repos
  7. CSS 413 stars, 1% · 1 repo
  8. TypeScript 245 stars, <1% · 3 repos

and 3 more languages

When they were made

100 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2009 and 2026

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