About bestofgithub.dev

What's listed

• GitHub's top 10,000 repositories by stars, found by walking GitHub's search down in star bands and refreshed every hour.
• Picks: a hand-picked list of developer tools, sorted into categories, with install commands. Each category, each league and each common GitHub topic has its own ranking: see rankings by category, the leagues and the topics.
• Rising repositories: the most-starred projects created in the last 30 days, and the top results of a search per category.
• Requests: when a search finds nothing more here, it asks GitHub live. Repositories with 10 or more stars that visitors open from those results join the directory.

Where the data comes from

Everything comes from GitHub's public REST API: stars and forks every hour, slower-moving details such as watchers and releases less often. Nothing is entered by hand except the picks and their categories. READMEs are shown as GitHub renders them, loaded when you open a repository; the facts above them (ladder, star growth, badges, similar repositories) are calculated here.

How the rankings work

• Elo ladder: every hour each repository plays the rivals nearest to it on the ladder, and wins on size (stars, forks, watchers) and momentum (stars and forks gained in the last day). The top 100 are Legendary; everyone else is placed in leagues by ladder position. The full method is on the ladder page.
• Trending: the most stars gained over the last day, week or month, measured between hourly snapshots.
• Hall of fame: the most stars of all time, the most forks, and the most-starred repositories created this year, in the last 30 days and in the last 7 days.
• Badges: every repository on the ladder has a league badge. Others are earned for a top-10 place in a day's trending (shown with the streak of consecutive days), a place among GitHub's 100 most-starred, a top-10 place among the year's or the month's new repositories, and a fast rise. Earned badges are kept: they record the best place reached.
• Similar repositories: those sharing the most GitHub topics with it, with rare topics counting for more than common ones; without shared topics, others from its category.

Independence

Rankings, badges and trending use public GitHub data only. Ads and sponsored listings, when there are any, are labelled and never change a ranking, and sponsored cards never appear inside one. The site has no accounts and no paywalls; see Privacy for what it collects (nothing that identifies you).

Contact

Questions, corrections and privacy requests: privacy@bestofgithub.dev.