Useful Forks

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

What is Useful Forks?

Useful Forks is a Chrome extension that inserts a button next to the 'Fork' button on GitHub repositories. It opens a new tab to scan the forks using an online tool. The extension increases the discoverability of useful forks by filtering out forks that never received any other activity on their main branch. Results can be exported as CSV or shared using a quick-link URL.

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Extension stats

By: https://useful-forks.github.io

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Users: 762 ▲ 14

Rating: 5.00 (8) ▲ 1 new ratings

Version: 2.2.3 (Last updated: 2023-08-03)

Creation date: 2023-01-21

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 3

Host permissions:

*://github.com/*

Size: 13.72K

Email: je*****@gmail.com

URLs: Website

Ranking

# 34917 ▲ 108

Other rankings

#324 in Developer Tools ▲ 2

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Extension summary

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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.

User reviews

This should be built into GitHub! Thanks for making this

Tom Leamon, 2024-11-09

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.