GitHub repositories taking off in the last 7 days

Ranked by how many more stars each repo got in the last 7 days than its pace over the 7 days before would predict. Star counts come from GitHub. Last updated 7 Nov 2026, 20:20 UTC.

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How the ranking works

Stars gained: New stars in the window. "all" means the repo is younger than the window, so the number is every star it has.
Today: Stars since midnight US Pacific time, so a partial day.
Above pace: How many more stars the repo got than its pace in the window before would predict. +500 means 500 more than usual.
Momentum: A daily score: 8 points per star and 2 per fork since midnight UTC, reduced for repos that are this busy every day.
Speed-up: Stars per day in the window divided by stars per day in the window before. "New" means the repo is younger than the window. "Under 14 days" (twice the window; "Under 2 years" for 1 year) means it is older than the window but too young for a full window before it to compare with.
Suspected: Repositories with at least 50 stars are left out as likely bought stars when they have no detected programming language and got those stars within a day of being created; or got them within 14 days while having no watchers, at most 1 fork, no detected language or under 1 KB of code other than HTML and CSS, and either 5 KB or less of files or an owner that is a personal account with at most 1 follower. Repositories with no detected language are also left out when, at any age, they have 5 KB or less of files and got at least 90% of their stars on a single day that ended more than a day ago; or have 5 KB or less of files and belong to a personal account with no followers that was created at most an hour before the repository. Any repository with at least 50 stars is also left out when, under 3 days old, it has no watchers and at least 5 forks and belongs to a personal account with no followers; it stays out while that account has no followers. See them.
Bars: Stars per day (per week for 90 days and 1 year). Bright bars are the selected window. Heights use a square-root scale, so quieter days stay visible next to a spike.

#	Repository	Stars	Today	7d	30d	Momentum	Speed-up
13501	Automatically make same-page links scroll smoothly JavaScript · 17 years old	1,943	0	0	0	0	No data
13502	Mirror of Apache PDFBox Java · 17 years old	3,139	0	+1	+14	0	1.1x faster
13503	A libyaml wrapper for Ruby Ruby · 17 years old	596	0	0	0	0	No data
13504	Simple Python style checker in one Python file Python · 17 years old	5,166	+1	+3	+7	10	1.1x faster
13505	Elegant parsing in Java and Scala - lightweight, easy-to-use, powerful. Java · 17 years old	1,319	0	0	+1	0	No data
13506	Per-Face Texture Mapping for Production Rendering https://wdas.github.io/ptex C · 17 years old	741	0	+1	+5	8	1.1x faster
13507	Code beautifier C++ · 17 years old	3,072	0	+1	+5	0	1.1x faster
13508	Ruby Facets Ruby · 17 years old	806	0	0	0	0	No data
13509	'httpclient' gives something like the functionality of libwww-perl (LWP) in Ruby. Ruby · 17 years old	709	0	0	0	0	No data
13510	Blacklight provides a discovery interface for any Solr (http://lucene.apache.org/solr) index. Ruby · 17 years old	797	0	0	+1	0	No data
13511	glob functionality for node.js TypeScript · 17 years old	8,708	0	0	+1	0	No data
13512	Quicksilver Project Source Objective-C · 17 years old	2,941	0	-1	+6	0	No data
13513	Rails Generators for Cucumber with special support for Capybara and DatabaseCleaner Ruby · 16 years old	1,039	0	0	0	0	No data
13514	Django model mixins and utilities. Python · 16 years old	2,759	0	0	+2	0	No data
13515	Hashie is a collection of classes and mixins that make Ruby hashes more powerful. Ruby · 16 years old	3,037	0	0	+1	0	No data
13516	Set, add, and clear arbitrary output headers in NGINX http servers C · 16 years old	1,782	0	+1	+2	0	1.1x faster
13517	Preflight for HTML email Ruby · 16 years old	2,418	0	0	+1	0	No data
13518	:floppy_disk: Ian's dotfiles, utils, and Zsh/Vim/tmux configs Perl · 16 years old	710	0	0	0	0	No data
13519	MirageOS is a library operating system that constructs unikernels OCaml · 16 years old	3,024	0	+2	+18	0	1.1x faster
13520	Simple tagging for django Python · 16 years old	3,444	0	0	+1	0	No data
13521	Simple, but flexible HTTP client library, with support for multiple backends. Ruby · 16 years old	5,956	0	+2	+9	0	1.1x faster
13522	Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API Ruby · 16 years old	3,950	0	0	+1	0	No data
13523	OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD C · 16 years old	12,550	0	+17	+77	0	1.0x, steady
13524	Keep track of failed login attempts in Django-powered sites. Python · 16 years old	1,704	0	+2	+6	0	1.1x faster
13525	A light-weight job scheduling system built on top of Resque Ruby · 16 years old	1,746	0	0	0	0	No data
13526	Official repository for the ZNC IRC bouncer C++ · 16 years old	2,129	0	+1	+4	8	1.1x faster
13527	Python library to handle Gene Ontology (GO) terms Python · 16 years old	910	0	+1	+4	0	1.1x faster
13528	A Scala DSL for talking with databases with minimum verbosity and maximum type safety Scala · 16 years old	588	0	0	0	0	No data
13529	A cross-platform suite of tools for building and deploying software for iOS and other platforms. Makefile · 16 years old	4,944	0	+5	+22	0	1.1x faster
13530	🔑 A Ruby wrapper for OAuth 1.0, and 1.0a protocols; clients & servers Ruby · 16 years old	669	0	0	0	0	No data
13531	RingoJS is a JavaScript platform built on the JVM and optimized for server-side applications. JavaScript · 16 years old	853	0	0	0	0	No data
13532	Console user interface library for Python (official repo) Python · 16 years old	3,028	0	+1	+6	8	1.1x faster
13533	Arduino library for reading NeuroSky EEG brainwave data. C++ · 16 years old	985	0	0	0	0	No data
13534	qooxdoo - Universal JavaScript Framework JavaScript · 16 years old	792	0	0	0	0	No data
13535	Java Uuid Generator (JUG) is a Java library for generating all standard UUID versions (v1 - v7) Java · 16 years old	944	0	0	+3	0	No data
13536	Doctrine Object Relational Mapper (ORM) PHP · 16 years old	10,169	0	+1	+8	8	1.1x faster
13537	ECMAScript compatibility tables JavaScript · 16 years old	4,507	0	0	+1	0	No data
13538	The SoundCloud custom javascript based player JavaScript · 16 years old	708	0	+1	+3	0	1.1x faster
13539	Character encoding auto-detection in JavaScript (port of python's chardet) TypeScript · 16 years old	743	0	0	+2	0	No data
13540	XML/XHTML and CSS 2.1 renderer in pure Java Java · 16 years old	2,236	0	-1	-1	0	No data
13541	🔐 oauth2 - A Ruby wrapper for the OAuth 2.0, & 2.1 Authorization Frameworks, including OpenID Connect (OIDC) Ruby · 16 years old	2,181	0	0	+1	0	No data
13542	The Rails application that powers OpenStreetMap Ruby · 16 years old	2,884	+1	+9	+41	8	1.0x, steady
13543	Restyle any website TypeScript · 16 years old	1,712	+1	+6	+69	18	1.1x faster
13544	Computing with Python functions. Python · 16 years old	4,416	+1	+1	+11	10	1.1x faster
13545	A toolkit for servicing HTTP requests in Scala Scala · 16 years old	710	0	0	0	0	No data
13546	The Official PHP MongoDB ORM/ODM PHP · 16 years old	1,098	0	0	+1	0	No data
13547	MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers. Erlang · 16 years old	1,889	0	0	0	0	No data
13548	A complete web conferencing system for virtual classes and more! TypeScript · 16 years old	9,270	0	+8	+35	10	1.0x, steady
13549	Source code to djangoproject.com Python · 16 years old	2,023	0	+2	+7	0	1.1x faster
13550	Django friendly finite state machine support Python · 16 years old	2,347	0	+2	+4	0	1.1x faster

Today counts stars since midnight US Pacific time, so it is a partial day.