Most-Starred GitHub Repositories 2026
About This Dataset
Most-Starred GitHub Repositories 2026
Public repositories with the most stars on GitHub, read from the GitHub API in September 2026. A star is a bookmark, not a measure of code quality or use, which is why curated lists and learning resources outrank the software libraries that far more projects actually depend on.
Analysis
codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x leads with 545,732 stars, 41,893 more than sindresorhus/awesome on 503,839. The 15 repositories here hold 5,596,513 stars between them. 4 of them contain no code GitHub can classify - they are lists and documentation rather than software. The most common listed language is Python, on 5 of them.
Source:
GitHub REST API
Key Findings
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codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x leads in GitHub Stars with 545,732 in 2026.
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Average GitHub Stars in 2026: 373,101 · median: 366,466.
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Gap in 2026: codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x is 2.1× larger than mattpocock/skills.
Data Insights
Numbers, trends & sources behind this chart
Methodology & source
- Data source
- GitHub REST API
- Coverage
- 15 entities · 2026 · 15 observations
- Measure
- GitHub Stars
- Last updated
- 7 September 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
How the figures are calculated
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2026.
Data Sources & References
All external sources cited in this dataset
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