The Top-Starred Python GitHub Devs, Orgs, and Repos to Follow (All-Time and Trending)
Why follow the top-starred Python GitHub devs?
Following influencers is usually a good practice. It has helped me in multiple ways:
- Whenever I run out of inspiration, I look at these influencers and see what they have achieved. This brings back the energy and I am back on my projects
- You can follow these influencers to see which events are they attending, what are they reading and what are they working on. This can quickly become a wealth of knowledge in itself.
- To some extent, it also provides a human touch to these influencers. By just looking at their profiles, they might come across as some one out of the world. But, when you start following them regularly, you tend to relate yourself with the influencers.
Inspired by the following Reddit post.
After reading through the post, I was curious to see a similar list for Python GitHub devs, orgs, and repos.
There's no definitive way to determine 'top' devs, orgs, and repos by language. Every metric has its flaws. The lists below look at total number of stars in Python repositories, which seems to be a decent metric that is readily available/easy to mine.
Dev stats are for individual contributors. Org stats are also provided: viewing the org link shows the devs who are part of the org. Not sure how you'd measure stats for each dev part of an org, or similarly, devs contributing to other projects.
GitHub is not perfect in classifying repos as Python. The lists below try to manually filter out mis-classified repos.
I found it interesting to track 'all time' and 'trending' stats, so lists for each are included. Sources are provided after each list.
Format: Dev - (Top Repo) - Total Dev Stars
- kennethreitz - (requests) - 39512
- mitsuhiko - (flask) - 36041
- jkbrzt - (httpie) - 22120
- nvbn - (thefuck) - 20740
- rg3 - (youtube-dl) - 14594
- donnemartin - (data-science-ipython-notebooks) - 12037
- valloric - (YouCompleteMe) - 10322
- apenwarr - (sshuttle) - 9012
- faif - (python-patterns) - 7868
- tomchristie - (django-rest-framework) - 7451
- p-e-w - (maybe) - 6636
- binux - (pyspider) - 6601
- toastdriven - (restless) - 6368
- jonathanslenders - (python-prompt-toolkit) - 6288
- coleifer - (peewee) - 5694
- nvie - (rq) - 5429
- dcramer - (django-devserver) - 5311
- amoffat - (sh) - 5203
- danmcinerney - (wifijammer) - 4991
- alex - (django-taggit) - 4970
Last updated: 2016-02-27
Format: Dev - (Top Repo) - Total Dev Stars
- nvbn - (thefuck) - 18884
- donnemartin - (data-science-ipython-notebooks) - 12037
- p-e-w - (maybe) - 6332
- fchollet - (keras) - 4562
- 0x5e - (wechat-deleted-friends) - 3906
- samshadwell - (TrumpScript) - 3123
- reinderien - (mimic) - 2925
- karan - (joe) - 2884
- diafygi - (acme-tiny) - 2868
- timothycrosley - (hug) - 2734
- avinassh - (rockstar) - 2720
- JuanPotato - (Legofy) - 2715
- rhiever - (Data-Analysis-and-Machine-Learning-Projects) - 2608
- 10se1ucgo - (DisableWinTracking) - 2500
- cyrus-and - (gdb-dashboard) - 2451
- danielquinn - (paperless) - 2439
- ryankiros - (neural-storyteller) - 1768
- jonathanslenders - (pyvim) - 1759
- ironmaniiith - (Github-profile-name-writer) - 1618
- AlessandroZ - (LaZagne) - 1546
Source: GitHub search, aggregating repos by dev
Last updated: 2016-02-27
*Trending: 2015-01-01 to 2016-02-27
Format: Org - (Top Repo) - Total Org Stars
- Django - (django) - 21742
- openstack - (nova) - 21087
- google - (yapf) - 19355
- ansible - (ansible) - 16793
- docker - (compose) - 15493
- letsencrypt - (letsencrypt) - 15131
- scrapy - (scrapy) - 14691
- shadowsocks - (shadowsocks) - 12726
- facebook - (chisel) - 12151
- getsentry - (sentry) - 11723
- tornadoweb - (tornado) - 10851
- reddit - (reddit) - 10833
- scikit-learn - (scikit-learn) - 9974
- ipython - (ipython) - 9103
- pydata - (pandas) - 8615
- kivy - (kivy) - 8330
- mozilla - (bleach) - 8092
- saltstack - (salt) - 7331
- yelp - (mrjob) - 7051
- fabric - (fabric) - 6845
Last updated: 2016-02-27
Format: Org - (Top Repo) - Total Org Stars
- google - (yapf) - 6431
- XX-net - (XX-Net) - 5335
- zulip - (zulip) - 3685
- facebook - (PathPicker) - 2778
- Kinto - (kinto) - 2612
- dbcli - (mycli) - 2469
- tqdm - (tqdm) - 2401
- CiscoCloud - (mantl) - 2007
- awslabs - (aws-shell) - 1957
- tensorflow - (skflow) - 1925
- lektor - (lektor) - 1548
- Yelp - (dumb-init) - 1517
- zero-db - (zerodb) - 1363
- stitchfix - (pyxley) - 1340
- pfnet - (chainer) - 1190
- waditu - (tushare) - 1054
- CacheBrowser - (cachebrowser) - 1014
- NVIDIA - (DIGITS) - 942
- spyder-ide - (spyder) - 872
- lyft - (confidant) - 842
Source: GitHub search, aggregating repos by org
Last updated: 2016-02-27
*Trending: 2015-01-01 to 2016-02-27
- jkbrzt/httpie 21372
CLI HTTP client; user-friendly cURL replacement featuring intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc. - nvbn/thefuck 18884
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command. - mitsuhiko/flask 18724
A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions - django/django 18234
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. - kennethreitz/requests 17783
Python HTTP Requests for Humans™ - ansible/ansible 15535
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy. Avoid writing scripts or custom code to deploy and update your applications— automate in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. - rg3/youtube-dl 14561
Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites - scrapy/scrapy 12765
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python. - letsencrypt/letsencrypt 12634
This Let's Encrypt repo is an ACME client that can obtain certs and extensibly update server configurations (currently supports Apache automation, nginx support coming soon) - tornadoweb/tornado 10851
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. - reddit/reddit 10377
the code that powers reddit.com - Valloric/YouCompleteMe 10040
A code-completion engine for Vim - scikit-learn/scikit-learn 9909
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python - ipython/ipython 8672
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc. - getsentry/sentry 8518
Sentry is cross-platform crash reporting built with love - faif/python-patterns 7862
A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python - docker/compose 7138
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker - fabric/fabric 6717
Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment. - apenwarr/sshuttle 6564
Transparent proxy server that works as a poor man's VPN. Forwards over ssh. Doesn't require admin. Works with Linux and MacOS. Supports DNS tunneling. - mailpile/Mailpile 6339
A free & open modern, fast email client with user-friendly encryption and privacy features
Last updated: 2016-02-27
- nvbn/thefuck 18884
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command. - p-e-w/maybe 5525
📂 🐇 🎩 See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen. - XX-net/XX-Net 5335
接力GoAgent翻墙工具----Anti-censorship tools - donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks 5008
Continually updated data science Python notebooks: Deep learning (TensorFlow, Theano, Caffe), scikit-learn, Kaggle, big data (Spark, Hadoop MapReduce, HDFS), matplotlib, pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Python essentials, AWS, and various command lines. https://bit.ly/data-notes - fchollet/keras 4562
Deep Learning library for Python. Convnets, recurrent neural networks, and more. Runs on Theano and TensorFlow. - 0x5e/wechat-deleted-friends 3906
查看被删的微信好友 - zulip/zulip 3685
Zulip server - powerful open source group chat - google/yapf 3221
A formatter for Python files - samshadwell/TrumpScript 3123
Make Python great again - reinderien/mimic 2925
[ab]using Unicode to create tragedy - facebook/PathPicker 2778
PathPicker accepts a wide range of input -- output from git commands, grep results, searches -- pretty much anything.After parsing the input, PathPicker presents you with a nice UI to select which files you're interested in. After that you can open them in your favorite editor or execute arbitrary commands. - timothycrosley/hug 2734
Embrace the APIs of the future. Hug aims to make developing APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler. - avinassh/rockstar 2720
Makes you a Rockstar C++ Programmer in 2 minutes - JuanPotato/Legofy 2715
Make images look as if they are made out of 1x1 LEGO blocks - donnemartin/saws 2687
A supercharged AWS command line interface (CLI). http://bit.ly/git-saws - Kinto/kinto 2612
A lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities. - 10se1ucgo/DisableWinTracking 2500
Uses some known methods that attempt to disable tracking in Windows 10 - dbcli/mycli 2469
A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting. - cyrus-and/gdb-dashboard 2451
Modular visual interface for GDB in Python - danielquinn/paperless 2439
Scan, index, and archive all of your paper documents
Last updated: 2016-02-27
*Trending: 2015-01-01 to 2016-02-27
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