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Useful Forks

By jeremi.grenier.berthiaume

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

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Time on the storeAbout 3 years or moreA rough range, not an exact date

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Chrome Web Store rating5.0 / 58 ratings on the Chrome Web Store

Last store update26 Sep 2026Version 2.2.4, 11 days ago

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Tom Leamon23 months ago
This should be built into GitHub! Thanks for making this
Riia Jarvenpaa2.6 years ago
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.
Rick Bowen3.3 years ago
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 to trace the noodles in the spaghetti-like graph-network that often happens with open source software. I hope I never have to go back to the "old way". Useful Forks is by far the fastest, best, and easiest way to see the current "state of the world" for any GitHub Project and the entire graph of forks. It makes finding active forks a breeze. The ONLY possibly tricky part (if you aren't familiar with the process) is creating a GitHub Personal Access Token. The Personal Access Token doesn't even need any scopes, it just needs to *exist* so that you can use GitHub's API without being rate-limited as an anonymous user. If you ever need to find GitHub project forks, use Useful Forks. Instead of using GitHub's terribly designed and incomplete "Network graph" (example: https://github.com/github/gitignore/network ) or useless "Forks" tab ( https://github.com/useful-forks/useful-forks.github.io/forks ), Useful Forks crawls the graph **for you**, sorts the results, and displays the relevant projects in a clean, easy to read table. Once it's finished querying the API, you'll have a sorted list of each project fork showing: * Project Slug (owner/name) * Star Count * Fork Count * Ahead Commits * Behind Commits * Last Updated Date (YYYY-MM-DD) You can then use the client-side filter bar to further identify the best fork for your given criteria.
Ian Foster3.5 years ago
Best way to find active forks of GitHub repositories!

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Extension ID: aflbdmaojedofngiigjpnlabhginodbf
Package size: 14.07KiB
Manifest: Version 3

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