Useful Forks

useful-forks.github.io

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Overview

To list GitHub forks ordered by stars, with additional information and automatic filtering of irrelevant ones.

The plugin inserts a button next to the "Fork" button when you visit a GitHub repository. Clicking on it will open a new tab which will use the online tool to scan the forks. This tool aims at increasing the discoverability of useful forks of open-source projects. The criteria is simple: if a fork was created, but never received any other activity on its main branch, it is filtered out. For sharing: the results can be exported as CSV, or you can point people to the quick-link URL.

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Tom Leamon
Nov 9, 2024

This should be built into GitHub! Thanks for making this

Riia Jarvenpaa
Feb 17, 2024

Works. Has already saved me a lot of time and trouble. I either can't use Github's build-in search - or it's not really helpful if you want to find the actually maintained repository forks of a project.

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Rick Bowen
Jun 23, 2023

Pros: * Open Source * Works as expected, no surprises * Fast * Easy to use Cons: * GitHub should already have this functionality built-in so someone doesn't have to build a chrome extension and website for them. I've been using Using Useful-Forks for over a year now. As an open-source contributor, software engineer and information security practitioner, I frequently find myself digging through active GitHub projects, GitHub public archives, project forks, forks of forks, or otherwise trying... Show more

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Version
2.2.3
Updated
August 3, 2023
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Languages
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