Useful Forks

Chrome extension, adding a sorted list of starred forks to the GitHub forks page. Results are filtered out if there were never any commits pushed since the fork was created.

Not published, if you want to install it, enable Developer mode (switch at the top-right) at the chrome://extensions URL and load the project folder as an unpacked extension (Load unpacked button at the top-left).

You should change the script file so that it includes your GitHub username and an Access Token.

For devs

The extension uses content_scripts.

To-do

• Sort by Star (a proper one!)
• Cache responses for a little while (https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/rest/guides/getting-started-with-the-rest-api#conditional-requests)
• Publish as a chrome extension
• Allow people to input their Access Token to increase API limits (from Extension's settings rather than through script)