What does “trending” mean here?
GitHub's own trending page is curated and changes without explanation. This list is different: it is computed live in your browser from the public GitHub Search API, using rules you can verify. This week ranks repositories created in the last 7 days by the stars they collected (at least 30). This month does the same for the last 30 days (at least 100 stars). All time ranks every repository above 50,000 stars — the all-time greats.
Why only certain licenses?
Every repository shown carries a recognized open-source license: MIT, Apache-2.0, the GPL family, BSD, MPL, ISC and a few others. Repositories with no license or with a proprietary one are filtered out, so everything on this list is genuinely free software you can legally use, study, modify and share.
How to read each card
- The number is its position in the list; the avatar shows the developer or organisation behind it.
- ★ n is the star count — how many people bookmarked the project.
- The colored dot is the main programming language; the badge is the license.
- Updated is the date of the last push: recent pushes mean active maintenance.
Tips
The list is fresh on every visit and cached on your device for 30 minutes. Filtering by a language is the fastest way to discover new libraries for your stack. If GitHub's rate limit (60 requests per hour per IP) is reached, the page will tell you — wait a few minutes and reload.