What is Repo Inspector?
GitHub profiles can be misleading: a project can look alive while nobody has committed to it in two years, or look tiny while it is rock solid and MIT-licensed. Repo Inspector pulls the real numbers for any public repository — community size, activity, license, language, topics and the latest stable release — into a single card.
When would I use it?
- Before installing a random GitHub find. Check that the project is active and has a community behind it.
- Before reusing code. The license row tells you what you are allowed to do — no license at all means you legally may not.
- Before updating a self-hosted service. The latest release box links to the changelog, which is where breaking changes are announced.
- Out of curiosity. See how the projects you love are really doing.
How to use it
Paste a repository in the form owner/name — the same text you see in the
GitHub URL — and press Inspect, or click one of the examples. The card
also shows health notes: for example, if the repository has not been pushed to
in over a year, or if no open-source license could be detected, we tell you so you can
weigh the risks yourself.
Privacy and limits
Everything runs in your browser against the public GitHub API; nothing is stored on our side. Each inspection costs at most two requests out of the 60 per hour GitHub allows unauthenticated visitors, so inspect freely — if you hit the limit, wait a few minutes.