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locustio/locust

Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest React Vite npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#benchmarking #http #load-generator #load-test #load-testing #load-tests

Updated: 2026-10-16
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2010-06-20
History: 21 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 10 open

28,217

stars

Forks: 3,255
Commits: 6,631 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +17 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +16 +0.2%

Website GitHub

zulip/zulip

Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.

AI dev

Stack

Python Astro Django Scrapy Tornado npm pnpm uv

GitHub topics

#apache #chat #collaboration #electron #foss #free

Updated: 2026-10-15
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2012-08-28
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 2,055 open

26,050

stars

Forks: 10,406
Commits: 72,055 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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kovidgoyal/calibre

The official source code repository for the calibre ebook manager

Stack

Python CMake pip uv

GitHub topics

#calibre #ebook #ebook-formats #ebook-manager #ebook-reader #ebooks

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2006-10-31
History: 47 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: Disabled

25,879

stars

Forks: 2,674
Commits: 54,466 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cookiecutter/cookiecutter

A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates), e.g. Python package projects, C projects.

Stack

Python pytest Starlette pip uv

GitHub topics

#cookiecutter #python

Updated: 2026-04-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-07-14
History: 17 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 326 open

25,146

stars

Forks: 2,291
Commits: 3,143 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

pypa/pipenv

Python Development Workflow for Humans.

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip Pipenv

GitHub topics

#packaging #pip #pipfile #python #virtualenv

Updated: 2026-10-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 9 open

25,024

stars

Forks: 1,879
Commits: 10,026 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

saleor/saleor

Saleor Core: the high performance, composable, headless commerce API.

AI dev

Stack

Python Celery Django pytest npm pip uv

GitHub topics

#cart #checkout #commerce #composable #e-commerce #ecommerce

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2013-02-12
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 296 open

23,437

stars

Forks: 6,141
Commits: 22,687 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

smicallef/spiderfoot

SpiderFoot automates OSINT for threat intelligence and mapping your attack surface.

Stack

Python pytest npm pip

GitHub topics

#attacksurface #cti #cybersecurity #footprinting #hacking #information-gathering

Updated: 2026-04-13
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2012-04-28
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 337 open

23,335

stars

Forks: 3,739
Commits: 3,742 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

get things from one computer to another, safely

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

Updated: 2026-09-23
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-02-10
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 184 open

22,984

stars

Forks: 760
Commits: 2,391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

mkdocs/mkdocs

Project documentation with Markdown.

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#documentation #markdown #mkdocs #python #static-site-generator

Updated: 2025-10-20
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-10
History: 11 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 192 open

22,496

stars

Forks: 2,657
Commits: 2,118 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

netbox-community/netbox

The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/products/free-netbox-cloud/

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework React npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cabling #dcim #django #infrastructure-management #ipam #netbox

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-03-01
History: 9 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 233 open

21,680

stars

Forks: 3,147
Commits: 15,959 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

wagtail/wagtail

A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience

AI dev

Stack

Python Django Django REST Framework React Tailwind CSS npm PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cms #django #hacktoberfest #python #wagtail

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 5 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-22
History: 10 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 1,020 open

20,543

stars

Forks: 4,644
Commits: 20,715 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

fail2ban/fail2ban

Daemon to ban hosts that cause multiple authentication errors

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#anti-bot #attack-prevention #ban-hosts #ban-management #bsd #fail2ban

Updated: 2026-10-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2004-10-07
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 278 open

18,780

stars

Forks: 1,508
Commits: 6,291 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

HelloZeroNet/ZeroNet

ZeroNet - Decentralized websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

Stack

JavaScript pip

GitHub topics

#anonymity #anticensorship #bitcoin #bittorrent #decentralized #internet-freedom

Updated: 2024-01-31
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2015-01-12
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 780 open

18,774

stars

Forks: 2,282
Commits: 4,033 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

janeczku/calibre-web

:books: Web app for browsing, reading and downloading eBooks stored in a Calibre database

Stack

Fluent Flask Tornado PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#calibre #ebook #ebook-manager #epub #mobi

Updated: 2026-09-05
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2015-08-02
History: 43 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 405 open

18,172

stars

Forks: 1,852
Commits: 4,843 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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asciinema/asciinema

Terminal session recorder, streamer and player 📹

Stack

Rust Axum Cargo

GitHub topics

#asciicast #asciinema #cli #recording #rustlang #streaming

Updated: 2026-08-14
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2011-11-21
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 12 open

17,873

stars

Forks: 1,045
Commits: 1,713 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

ranger/ranger

A VIM-inspired filemanager for the console

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#console #file-launcher #file-manager #file-preview #vim

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2009-11-16
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 898 open

17,423

stars

Forks: 939
Commits: 5,319 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

aws/aws-cli

Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#aws #aws-cli #cloud #cloud-management

Updated: 2026-10-12
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-15
History: 11 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 768 open

17,304

stars

Forks: 4,724
Commits: 17,822 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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wting/autojump

A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#autojump #command-line-tool #filesystem #python

Updated: 2025-02-27
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2008-04-21
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 232 open

16,959

stars

Forks: 708
Commits: 845 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

reddit-archive/reddit

historical code from reddit.com

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#javascript #python #reddit

Updated: 2017-10-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-06-18
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

16,951

stars

Forks: 2,848
Commits: 7,956 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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ipython/ipython

Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.

Stack

Python pytest PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#closember #data-science #hacktoberfest #ipython #jupyter #python

Updated: 2026-10-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-07-06
History: 5 history points
License: BSD-3-Clause
Issues: 1,322 open

16,793

stars

Forks: 4,536
Commits: 28,700 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

treeverse/dvc

🦉 Data Versioning and ML Experiments

Stack

Python Celery pytest PEP 517

GitHub topics

#ai #data-science #data-version-control #developer-tools #machine-learning #reproducibility

Updated: 2026-09-14
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-04
History: 47 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 210 open

15,875

stars

Forks: 1,327
Commits: 9,568 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

beetbox/beets

music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger

AI dev

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#cli #hacktoberfest #music #music-library #musicbrainz #python

Updated: 2026-10-13
Lists: 6 list mentions
First commit: 2008-05-14
History: 13 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 692 open

15,790

stars

Forks: 2,151
Commits: 15,506 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +12 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

saltstack/salt

Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest Tornado Go modules PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cloud #cloud-management #cloud-providers #cloud-provisioning #configuration-management #edge

Updated: 2026-09-12
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2011-02-20
History: 11 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,879 open

15,653

stars

Forks: 5,610
Commits: 126,134 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pre-commit/pre-commit

A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Stack

Python pytest Bundler pip

GitHub topics

#git #linter #pre-commit #python #refactoring

Updated: 2026-10-07
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-03-13
History: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 26 open

15,617

stars

Forks: 1,013
Commits: 2,863 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

lra/mackup

Backup and keep your application settings in sync.

Stack

Python pytest uv

Updated: 2026-09-09
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2013-04-06
History: 47 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 294 open

15,320

stars

Forks: 944
Commits: 2,470 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

s0md3v/XSStrike

Most advanced XSS scanner.

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#waf-detection #xss #xss-bruteforce #xss-detection #xss-exploit #xss-python

Updated: 2025-04-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-06-26
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 96 open

15,212

stars

Forks: 2,094
Commits: 475 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

idank/explainshell

match command-line arguments to their help text

AI dev

Stack

Python Cobra Flask gRPC Go pytest Go modules npm pip

Updated: 2026-08-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-30
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 57 open

14,280

stars

Forks: 854
Commits: 763 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

geldata/gel

Gel supercharges Postgres with a modern data model, graph queries, Auth & AI solutions, and much more.

Stack

Python Cargo PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#database #edgedb #edgeql #gel #graph-relational #high-performance

Updated: 2025-12-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-10-01
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 948 open

14,171

stars

Forks: 452
Commits: 9,812 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

evilsocket/opensnitch

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

Stack

Python gRPC Go Go modules pip

GitHub topics

#application-firewall #data-breach #firewall #linux #networking #security

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-16
History: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 209 open

14,153

stars

Forks: 677
Commits: 2,293 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

sivel/speedtest-cli

Command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net

Archived

Stack

Python pip

GitHub topics

#python #python-library #python-script #speedtest

Updated: 2024-07-20
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-09-10
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: Disabled

14,056

stars

Forks: 1,913
Commits: 299 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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