youtube

YouTube Joined Apr 2013 View on GitHub

Stars: 14,653; across 30 public repos
Rank: #2,643; of 94,827 organizations, top 3%

Repositories with 50+ stars

youtube's repositories with their overall rank
Rank	Repository	Language	Stars
10,488	api-samples Code samples for YouTube APIs, including the YouTube Data API, YouTube Analytics API, and YouTube Live Streaming API. The repo contains language-specific directories that contain the samples.	Java	6,025
29,827	spfjs A lightweight JS framework for fast navigation and page updates from YouTube	JavaScript	2,277
34,959	doorman Doorman: Global Distributed Client Side Rate Limiting.	Go	1,950
40,214	youtube-ios-player-helper Lightweight helper library that allows iOS developers to add inline playback of YouTube videos through a WebView	Objective-C	1,704
130,668	cobalt Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5 application container		477
147,446	spitfire A high-performance Python template language	Python	416
175,338	yt-watchme	Java	342
214,406	yt-direct-lite-android The code is a reference implementation for an Android OS application that captures video, uploads it to YouTube, and submits the video to a YouTube Direct Lite instance.	Java	271
241,619	static-constraint-decoding Sparse Transition Matrix-Accelerated Trie Index for Constrained Decoding (https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22647)	Python	235
270,331	yt-direct-lite-iOS The code is a reference implementation for an iOS application that captures video, uploads it to YouTube, and submits the video to a YouTube Direct Lite instance.	Objective-C	205
356,161	geo-search-tool A tool to perform YouTube API v3 searches for videos tagged with geo-coordinates.	JavaScript	147
386,326	yt-android-player	Java	133
512,299	js_mse_eme js_mse_eme is an externally-published tool that is aimed to test the validity of a browser's HTML5 Media Source Extension and Encrypted Media Extension implementations	JavaScript	93
540,157	youtubechatbot This is a sample YouTube chat bot that's designed to run on Google App Engine. It leverages Task Queues to simulate a long-running background process which polls the YouTube LiveChatMessages API...		87
655,623	youtube-chat-for-minecraft A plugin for Minecraft Forge that provides an API for YouTube live chat services	Java	68
696,099	h5vcc This is a minimal build of WebKit and Chromium sufficient to render an HTML5 video container for game consoles.	C++	63

Among 94,827 organizations

10k–16k stars: 1,461 organizations, including youtube

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

Where the stars are

api-samples 6k, 41%spfjs 2.3k, 16%doorman 2k, 13%youtube-ios-player-helper 1.7k, 12%cobalt 477, 3%spitfire 416, 3%yt-watchme 342, 2%yt-direct-lite-android 271, 2%static-constraint-decoding 235, 2%yt-direct-lite-iOS 205, 1%

Smaller repos 160, 1%

geo-search-tool 147, 1%yt-android-player 133, 1%js_mse_eme 93, 1%youtubechatbot 87, 1%youtube-chat-for-minecraft 68, <1%h5vcc 63, <1%

Languages

Java 6.8k stars, 47% · 5 repos
JavaScript 2.5k stars, 17% · 3 repos
Go 2k stars, 13% · 1 repo
Objective-C 1.9k stars, 13% · 2 repos
Python 651 stars, 4% · 2 repos
C++ 63 stars, <1% · 1 repo

When they were made

16 repos with 50+ stars, made between 2013 and 2026

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Quick stats

Next rank: +3 stars to reach #2,642
Next milestone: +20,341 stars to reach the top 1%
Public repos: 30, 16 with 50+ stars
Popular repos: 12 over 100 stars, 4 over 1k stars
Top repo: api-samples, #10,488 of all repos, 41% of stars
Smaller repos: 160 stars from repos under 50