⭐ GitHub Stars Radar

What is new, what is hot and what is biggest on GitHub, in one place.

AI dev skills · AI tools · AI agents · Mobile · Web · 14 programming languages

Live site · Report a bug · Suggest a category · Contribute

Contents

• Why
• Features
• Categories
• How it works
• Run it locally
• Project structure
• Contributing
• Contributors
• Star history
• License

Why

GitHub Trending mixes old and new projects and has no categories. GitHub search can rank by stars but knows nothing about momentum. GitHub Stars Radar puts three questions side by side, each split by category and language:

• New: which repositories created this week, month or year got the most stars?
• Hot: which repositories, of any age, gained the most stars today, this week or this month?
• All-time: which repositories are the biggest overall?

Features

🌱 New	Repositories created in the last 7, 30 or 365 days, ranked by stars
🔥 Hot	Repositories of any age ranked by stars gained today, this week or this month
🏆 All-time	The most-starred repositories overall
🗂️ Categories	AI dev skills, AI tools, AI agents, mobile, web, plus 14 languages
🔎 Instant filter	Search by name, description, topic or language
➕ Save for later	Keep a personal list in the Saved tab (stored in your browser)
🌐 English / Tiếng Việt	Switch the interface language from the header
🔗 Shareable views	Every view has its own link, e.g. #/hot/week/lang/rust
📱 Responsive	Table on desktop, compact cards on phones
🔄 Always fresh	GitHub Actions refreshes the data every 6 hours

Categories

Category	Matches repositories with
⭐ All	everything (the all-time view keeps repositories with 10k+ stars)
🛠️ AI dev skills	topics agent-skills claude-skills claude-code-skills claude-code-plugin codex-skills cursor-rules subagents spec-driven-development
🧠 AI tools	topics llm ai generative-ai machine-learning mcp chatgpt
🤖 AI agents	topics ai-agent ai-agents agents agentic-ai multi-agent claude-code
📱 Mobile	topics android ios flutter react-native swiftui jetpack-compose
🌍 Web	topics react nextjs vue svelte frontend tailwindcss web
💻 Languages	TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Go · Rust · Java · Kotlin · Swift · Dart · C++ · C# · PHP · Ruby · Zig

Missing something? Suggest a category or language. It is usually a one-line change.

How it works

flowchart LR
    cron["⏰ GitHub Actions<br/>every 6 hours"] --> fetch["scripts/fetch.mjs"]
    fetch -- "new + all-time<br/>sort:stars" --> api[("GitHub<br/>Search API")]
    fetch -- "hot<br/>stars gained" --> trending[("github.com<br/>/trending")]
    fetch -- "hot: repo details" --> gql[("GitHub<br/>GraphQL API")]
    fetch --> json["site/data/repos.json"]
    json --> commit["commit to main"]
    commit --> pages["🚀 GitHub Pages"]
    pages --> user["👩‍💻 You"]

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• New and all-time use the Search API. scripts/fetch.mjs runs one search per topic or language (and per period for new), merges the results and keeps the top 50 of each list. The search API cannot OR topics together, which is why it runs one query per topic.
• Hot uses GitHub Trending, the only public source of stars gained in a period. The script reads the daily, weekly and monthly pages for every language, fetches topics and details for those repositories in a few GraphQL calls, and sorts each category by stars gained. Trending lists about 25 repositories per page, so hot lists are shorter than the others.
• The site is plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript: no framework, no bundler, no build step.

Run it locally

Requirements: Node.js 18+ and, optionally, the GitHub CLI for a token.

git clone https://github.com/dab246/github-stars-radar.git
cd github-stars-radar

# 1. Fetch fresh data (about 8 minutes because of the search rate limit)
GITHUB_TOKEN=$(gh auth token) node scripts/fetch.mjs

# 2. Serve the static site
python3 -m http.server -d site 8000   # open http://localhost:8000

Tip

Only working on the UI? Skip step 1. site/data/repos.json is already committed.

Project structure

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├── .github/workflows/update.yml   # refresh data every 6h + deploy to Pages
├── scripts/fetch.mjs              # Search API + Trending + GraphQL → site/data/repos.json
└── site/
    ├── index.html                 # page shell
    ├── styles.css                 # design tokens + responsive layout
    ├── app.js                     # rendering, filters, saved list, i18n
    └── data/repos.json            # generated data (do not edit by hand)

Contributing

Contributions of every size are welcome, from fixing a typo to adding a new category. Ideas to get started:

• 🗂️ Add a category or language. Add an entry to CATEGORIES / LANGUAGES in scripts/fetch.mjs and a label to I18N in site/app.js.
• 🌐 Add a translation. Copy the en block in I18N and translate it.
• 🎨 Improve the UI. Light theme, sorting by forks, a "new this week" badge…
• 🐛 Fix a bug or improve accessibility.

Read the contributing guide for the workflow, and browse the good first issues.

Contributors

Thanks to everyone who helps make this better 💛

Star history

If this project helps you discover something cool, please give it a ⭐. It helps others find it too.

License

MIT. Repository data comes from the public GitHub REST API, GraphQL API and Trending page, and belongs to the respective owners.