The Top Python GitHub Devs and Repos to Follow (All-Time and Trending)
Why follow the top 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 folllowing 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 and repos.
There's no definitive way to determine 'top' developers and repos. 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.
Developer stats are for individual contributors. Not sure how you'd measure stats for developers part of an org or those contributing to other projects.
I found it interesting to track 'all time' and 'trending' developers/repos, so lists for each are included. Sources are provided after each list.
I'll update these lists at least once a week.
Sure! If there's interest in seeing similar lists in other programming languages, please file an issue or better yet, contribute.
- kennethreitz: 38966
- mitsuhiko: 35640
- jkbrzt: 21848
- nvbn: 20445
- vinta: 15963
- rg3: 14334
- donnemartin: 13555
- josephmisiti: 11646
- minimaxir: 11024
- valloric: 10186
- apenwarr: 8928
- faif: 7707
- tomchristie: 7343
- binux 6524
- toastdriven 6347
- jonathanslenders 6212
- p-e-w 6068
- coleifer 5645
- nvie 5364
- dcramer 5290
Source: github-awards, excluding organizations
Last updated: 2/15/16
- nvbn 18613
- donnemartin 13239
- minimaxir 10919
- p-e-w 5780
- fchollet 4412
- 0x5e 3824
- drduh 3708
- KeyboardFire 3358
- larsenwork 3130
- samshadwell 3073
- chrissimpkins 2944
- reinderien 2910
- karan 2857
- diafygi 2760
- JuanPotato 2699
- avinassh 2686
- rhiever 2560
- 10se1ucgo 2477
- rushter 2263
- danielquinn 1906
Source: GitHub search, aggregating repos by developer
Last updated: 2/15/16
*Trending: 01/01/2015 to 2/15/16
- jkbrzt/httpie 21118
CLI HTTP client; user-friendly cURL replacement featuring intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc. - nvbn/thefuck 18613
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command. - mitsuhiko/flask 18470
A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions - vinta/awesome-python 18220
A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software - django/django 18023
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines. - kennethreitz/requests 17555
Python HTTP Requests for Humans™ - ansible/ansible 15321
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 14303
Small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites - scrapy/scrapy 12551
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python. - letsencrypt/letsencrypt 12247
This Let's Encrypt repo is an ACME client that can obtain certs and extensibly update server configurations (currently supports Apache on .deb based systems, nginx support coming soon) - shadowsocks/shadowsocks 11796
- josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning 11111
A curated list of awesome Machine Learning frameworks, libraries and software. - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings 10920
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. - tornadoweb/tornado 10771
Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. - reddit/reddit 10302
the code that powers reddit.com - Valloric/YouCompleteMe 9907
A code-completion engine for Vim - scikit-learn/scikit-learn 9768
scikit-learn: machine learning in Python - ipython/ipython 8572
Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc. - getsentry/sentry 8427
Sentry is cross-platform crash reporting built with love - adobe-fonts/source-code-pro 7880
Monospaced font family for user interface and coding environments
Last updated: 2/15/16
- nvbn/thefuck 18613
Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command. - minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings 10919
The Big List of Naughty Strings is a list of strings which have a high probability of causing issues when used as user-input data. - XX-net/XX-Net 5053
接力GoAgent翻墙工具----Anti-censorship tools - p-e-w/maybe 4987
📂 🐇 🎩 See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen. - donnemartin/data-science-ipython-notebooks 4898
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 4412
Deep Learning library for Python. Convnets, recurrent neural networks, and more. Runs on Theano and TensorFlow. - 0x5e/wechat-deleted-friends 3824
查看被删的微信好友 - drduh/OS-X-Security-and-Privacy-Guide 3708
- zulip/zulip 3648
Zulip server - powerful open source group chat - KeyboardFire/mkcast 3358
[OBSOLETE - see readme] A tool for creating GIF screencasts of a terminal, with key presses overlaid. - google/yapf 3166
A formatter for Python files - larsenwork/monoid 3130
Customisable coding font with alternates, ligatures and contextual positioning. Crazy crisp at 12px/9pt. http://larsenwork.com/monoid/ - samshadwell/TrumpScript 3073
Make Python great again - chrissimpkins/codeface 2944
Typefaces for source code beautification - reinderien/mimic 2910
[ab]using Unicode to create tragedy - facebook/PathPicker 2750
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. - JuanPotato/Legofy 2699
Make images look as if they are made out of 1x1 LEGO blocks - avinassh/rockstar 2686
Makes you a Rockstar C++ Programmer in 2 minutes - donnemartin/saws 2666
A supercharged AWS command line interface (CLI). http://bit.ly/git-saws - Kinto/kinto 2590
A lightweight JSON storage service with synchronisation and sharing abilities.
Last updated: 2/15/16
*Trending: 01/01/2015 to 2/15/16
