GHTOPDEP

CLI tool for sorting dependents repo by stars

Requirements

• Python 3.11 and up

Installation

From PyPI

$ pip install ghtopdep

From git repository

$ pip install git+https://github.com/andriyor/ghtopdep.git

From source

$ git clone https://github.com/andriyor/ghtopdep
$ cd ghtopdep
$ pip install .

Using docker (from source)

First docker build the image once:

$ git clone https://github.com/andriyor/ghtopdep
$ cd ghtopdep
$ docker build . -t ghtopdep

Then you can docker run it:

$ docker run --rm -it ghtopdep --help

Version upgrade

➜ pip install --upgrade ghtopdep

Usage

A token is needed only for --description, --exclude-archived and --search, which use the GitHub API. Dependents themselves are scraped from GitHub pages and don't use the token. For public repositories, create a token with the public_repo permission.

You can use token as environment variable GHTOPDEP_TOKEN at ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

export GHTOPDEP_TOKEN="************************"

or pass token as option --token

If you use GitHub CLI, you can reuse its token:

export GHTOPDEP_TOKEN=$(gh auth token)

➜ ghtopdep --help
Usage: ghtopdep [OPTIONS] URL

Options:
  --repositories / --packages  Sort repositories or packages (default
                               repositories)
  --table / --json             View mode
  --description                Show description of packages or repositories
                               (performs additional request per shown
                               repository)
  --exclude-archived           Skip archived repositories (performs additional
                               request per checked repository)
  --rows INTEGER               Number of showing repositories (default=10)
  --minstar INTEGER            Minimum number of stars (default=5)
  --search TEXT                search code at top --rows dependents
                               (repositories/packages)
  --all-packages               Merge dependents of all packages listed for the
                               repository (default: only the package GitHub
                               selects)
  --package-name TEXT          Only scrape the package with this exact name
  --token TEXT
  --help                       Show this message and exit.

Table view (by default)

➜ ghtopdep https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js
| url                                               | stars   |
|---------------------------------------------------|---------|
| https://github.com/transloadit/uppy               | 21K     |
| https://github.com/codesandbox/codesandbox-client | 8.6K    |
| https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger            | 6.5K    |
| https://github.com/keplergl/kepler.gl             | 5.8K    |
| https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet               | 4.5K    |
| https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin                    | 4.0K    |
| https://github.com/NorthwoodsSoftware/GoJS        | 3.8K    |
| https://github.com/buttercup/buttercup-desktop    | 3.1K    |
| https://github.com/openstyles/stylus              | 2.3K    |
| https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash      | 2.0K    |
found 1660 repositories others repositories are private
found 443 repositories with more than zero star
~ via ⬢ v12.5.0 via 🐘 v7.2.19 via 🐍 3.8.0 took 2m 57s

JSON view

➜ ghtopdep https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js --json
[{"url": "https://github.com/transloadit/uppy", "stars": 21191}, {"url": "https://github.com/codesandbox/codesandbox-client", "stars": 8386}, {"url": "https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger", "stars": 6491}, {"url": "https://github.com/keplergl/kepler.gl", "stars": 5615}, {"url": "https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet", "stars": 4303}, {"url": "https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin", "stars": 3947}, {"url": "https://github.com/NorthwoodsSoftware/GoJS", "stars": 3692}, {"url": "https://github.com/buttercup/buttercup-desktop", "stars": 3054}, {"url": "https://github.com/openstyles/stylus", "stars": 2219}, {"url": "https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash", "stars": 1869}]

you can sort packages and fetch their description

➜ ghtopdep https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js --description --packages
| url                                            | stars   | description                                                  |
|------------------------------------------------|---------|--------------------------------------------------------------|
| https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin                 | 4.0K    | Collaborative JavaScript Debugging App                       |
| https://github.com/jvilk/BrowserFS             | 1.9K    | BrowserFS is an in-browser filesystem that emulates the...   |
| https://github.com/coderaiser/cloudcmd         | 1.1K    | ✨☁️📁✨ Cloud Commander file manager for the web with...       |
| https://github.com/node-red/node-red-web-nodes | 153     | A collection of node-red nodes aimed at web services         |
| https://github.com/robertknight/passcards      | 133     | A 1Password-compatible command-line and web-based...         |
| https://github.com/enyojs/ares-project         | 125     | A browser-based code editor and UI designer for Enyo 2...    |
| https://github.com/transloadit/uppy-server     | 114     | [DEPRECATED] 'Uppy Server' was renamed to 'Companion' and... |
| https://github.com/bioimagesuiteweb/bisweb     | 34      | This is the repository for the BioImage Suite Web Project    |
| https://github.com/sallar/dropbox-fs           | 30      | :package: Node FS wrapper for Dropbox                        |
| https://github.com/filefog/filefog             | 26      | A thin cloud-service agnostic wrapper/interface to access... |
found 140 packages others packages are private
found 61 packages with more than zero star

also ghtopdep support code searching at dependents (repositories/packages)

--search searches the top --rows dependents. GitHub allows about 10 code searches per minute, so larger --rows values make ghtopdep pause and wait.

➜ ghtopdep https://github.com/rob-balfre/svelte-select --search=isMulti --minstar=0
https://github.com/andriyor/linkorg-frontend/blob/7eed49c332f127c8541281b85def80e54c882920/src/App.svelte with 0 stars
https://github.com/andriyor/linkorg-frontend/blob/7eed49c332f127c8541281b85def80e54c882920/src/providers/Post.svelte with 0 stars
https://github.com/jdgaravito/bitagora_frontend/blob/776a23f5e848995d3eba90563d55c96429470c48/src/Events/AddEvent.svelte with 0 stars
https://github.com/gopear/OlcsoSor/blob/b1fa1d877a59f7daf41a86fecb21137c91652d77/src/routes/index.svelte with 3 stars
https://github.com/openstate/allmanak/blob/ff9ac0833e5e63f7c17f99c5c2355b4e46c48148/app/src/routes/index.svelte with 3 stars
https://github.com/openstate/allmanak/blob/e6d7aa72a8878eefc6f63a27c983894de1cef294/app/src/components/ReportForm.svelte with 3 stars
https://github.com/wolbodo/members/blob/d091f1e44b4e8cb8cc31f39ea6f6e9c36211d019/sapper/src/components/Member.html with 1 stars

Development setup

Using uv

$ uv sync
$ uv run ghtopdep https://github.com/dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js
$ uv build
$ uv publish

License

MIT

Alternatives

Boshen/top-github-dependents-by-stars: CLI tool for sorting dependents repo by stars

ghtracker - not provide full result https://github.com/zer0yu/ghtracker/issues/2

github-by-stars - complex setup

References

Allow dependents to be sorted by stars · Issue #1537 · isaacs/github

Sorting the insights dependency graph lists · community · Discussion #5575