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:

1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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

1. kennethreitz - (requests) - 44472
2. jkbrzt - (httpie) - 26428
3. nvbn - (thefuck) - 23493
4. donnemartin - (data-science-ipython-notebooks) - 20648
5. rg3 - (youtube-dl) - 19759
6. valloric - (YouCompleteMe) - 11875
7. apenwarr - (sshuttle) - 9628
8. faif - (python-patterns) - 9033
9. fchollet - (keras) - 8742
10. tomchristie - (django-rest-framework) - 8575
11. jonathanslenders - (python-prompt-toolkit) - 7826
12. binux - (pyspider) - 7796
13. soimort - (you-get) 7402
14. p-e-w - (maybe) - 7133
15. miguelgrinberg - (flasky) - 6771
16. alexjc - (neural-doodle) - 6505
17. toastdriven - (restless) - 6481
18. coleifer - (peewee) - 6437
19. nvie - (rq) - 6229
20. nicolargo - (glances) - 5775

Source: github-awards

Last updated: 2016-08-21

Format: Dev - (Top Repo) - Total Dev Stars

1. donnemartin - (gitsome) - 8495
2. alexjc - (neural-doodle) - 6392
3. p-e-w - (maybe) - 5985
4. eliangcs - (http-prompt) - 5513
5. 0x5e - (wechat-deleted-friends) - 4497
6. a1studmuffin - (SpaceshipGenerator) - 4284
7. samshadwell - (TrumpScript) - 3923
8. jayfk - (statuspage) - 3261
9. reinderien - (mimic) - 3079
10. pavelgonchar - (colornet) - 2825
11. JuanPotato - (Legofy) - 2783
12. diafygi - (acme-tiny) - 2636
13. cyrus-and - (gdb-dashboard) - 2625
14. awentzonline - (image-analogies) - 2560
15. programthink - (zhao) - 2361
16. nlintz - (TensorFlow-Tutorials) - 2321
17. gongjianhui - (AppleDNS) - 2009
18. ujjwalkarn - (DataSciencePython) - 1986
19. mchristopher - (PokemonGo-DesktopMap) - 1979
20. yenchenlin - (DeepLearningFlappyBird) - 1759

Source: GitHub search, aggregating repos by dev

Last updated: 2016-08-21

*Trending: 2015-08-21 to 2016-08-21

Format: Org - (Top Repo) - Total Org Stars

1. pallets - (flask) - 33572
2. openstack - (nova) - 24591
3. Django - (django) - 24490
4. google - (yapf) - 23552
5. ansible - (ansible) - 21169
6. scrapy - (scrapy) - 17881
7. docker - (compose) - 17070
8. certbot - (certbot) - 16023
9. shadowsocks - (shadowsocks) - 14934
10. facebook - (chisel) - 14082
11. getsentry - (sentry) - 13703
12. scikit-learn - (scikit-learn) - 12993
13. tornadoweb - (tornado) - 11958
14. reddit - (reddit) - 11752
15. ipython - (ipython) - 10567
16. pydata - (pandas) - 10079
17. yelp - (mrjob) - 9879
18. airbnb - (caravel) - 9842
19. kivy - (kivy) - 9674
20. xx-net - (XX-Net) - 9267

Source: github-awards

Last updated: 2016-08-21

Format: Org - (Top Repo) - Total Org Stars

1. Rochester-NRT - (RocAlphaGo) - 7224
2. tensorflow - (magenta) - 5663
3. cmusatyalab - (openface) - 4973
4. zulip - (zulip) - 4005
5. PokemonGoF - (PokemonGo-Bot) - 3990
6. awslabs - (aws-shell) - 3742
7. reverse-shell - (routersploit) - 3680
8. tflearn - (tflearn) - 3471
9. MagicStack - (uvloop) - 3469
10. openai - (gym) - 3399
11. lektor - (lektor) - 1960
12. PokemonGoMap - (PokemonGo-Map) - 1930
13. eastlakeside - (interpy-zh) - 1552
14. zerodb - (zerodb) - 1477
15. digitalocean - (netbox) - 1426
16. commaai - (research) - 1412
17. nerevu - (riko) - 1129
18. ascribe - (image-match) - 1039
19. CacheBrowser - (cachebrowser) - 1024
20. ansible - (ansible-container) - 1003

Source: GitHub search, aggregating repos by org

Last updated: 2016-08-21

*Trending: 2015-08-21 to 2016-08-21

1. jkbrzt/httpie 25585
   CLI HTTP client, user-friendly curl replacement with intuitive UI, JSON support, syntax highlighting, wget-like downloads, extensions, etc.
2. pallets/flask 22167
   A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions
3. nvbn/thefuck 21504
   Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.
4. django/django 20841
   The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
5. kennethreitz/requests 20420
   Python HTTP Requests for Humans™
6. rg3/youtube-dl 19722
   Command-line program to download videos from YouTube.com and other video sites
7. ansible/ansible 18399
   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.
8. certbot/certbot 16024
   Certbot, previously the Let's Encrypt Client, is EFF's tool to obtain certs from Let's Encrypt, and (optionally) auto-enable HTTPS on your server. It can also act as a client for any other CA that uses the ACME protocol.
9. scrapy/scrapy 15535
   Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
10. scikit-learn/scikit-learn 12923
    scikit-learn: machine learning in Python
11. tornadoweb/tornado 11958
    Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.
12. Valloric/YouCompleteMe 11558
    A code-completion engine for Vim
13. reddit/reddit 11269
    the code that powers reddit.com
14. getsentry/sentry 10107
    Sentry is cross-platform crash reporting built with love
15. ipython/ipython 9911
    Official repository for IPython itself. Other repos in the IPython organization contain things like the website, documentation builds, etc.
16. XX-net/XX-Net 9131
    a web proxy tool
17. faif/python-patterns 9028
    A collection of design patterns/idioms in Python
18. docker/compose 8074
    Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
19. fchollet/keras 7706
    Deep Learning library for Python. Convnets, recurrent neural networks, and more. Runs on Theano or TensorFlow.
20. fabric/fabric 7517
    Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment.

Source: GitHub search

Last updated: 2016-08-21

1. Rochester-NRT/RocAlphaGo 7224
   An independent, student-led replication of DeepMind's 2016 Nature publication, "Mastering the game of Go with deep neural networks and tree search" (Nature 529, 484-489, 28 Jan 2016), details of which can be found on their website https://deepmind.com/publications.html.
2. alexjc/neural-doodle 6392
   Turn your two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks, generate seamless textures from photos, transfer style from one image to another, perform example-based upscaling, but wait... there's more! (An implementation of Semantic Style Transfer.)
3. p-e-w/maybe 5985
   📂 🐇 🎩 See what a program does before deciding whether you really want it to happen.
4. eliangcs/http-prompt 5513
   HTTPie + prompt_toolkit = an interactive command-line HTTP client featuring autocomplete and syntax highlighting
5. cmusatyalab/openface 4973
   Face recognition with deep neural networks.
6. 0x5e/wechat-deleted-friends 4497
   查看被删的微信好友
7. a1studmuffin/SpaceshipGenerator 4284
   A Blender script to procedurally generate 3D spaceships
8. zulip/zulip 4005
   Zulip server - powerful open source group chat
9. samshadwell/TrumpScript 3923
   Make Python great again
10. reverse-shell/routersploit 3680
    The Router Exploitation Framework
11. PokemonGoF/PokemonGo-Bot 3564
    The Pokemon Go Bot, baking with community.
12. tflearn/tflearn 3471
    Deep learning library featuring a higher-level API for TensorFlow.
13. jayfk/statuspage 3261
    A statuspage generator that lets you host your statuspage for free on Github.
14. donnemartin/gitsome 3249
    A supercharged Git/GitHub command line interface (CLI).
15. openai/gym 3131
    A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
16. reinderien/mimic 3079
    [ab]using Unicode to create tragedy
17. tensorflow/magenta 3008
    Magenta: Music and Art Generation with Machine Intelligence
18. donnemartin/saws 2955
    A supercharged AWS command line interface (CLI).
19. pavelgonchar/colornet 2825
    Neural Network to colorize grayscale images
20. JuanPotato/Legofy 2783
    Make images look as if they are made out of 1x1 LEGO blocks

Source: GitHub search

Last updated: 2016-08-21

*Trending: 2015-08-21 to 2016-08-21

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