dep-rank

Rank GitHub dependents by stars or trust.

dep-rank finds the most popular repositories that depend on a given GitHub project. It scrapes GitHub's dependents page, enriches results via the GraphQL API, and works as a command-line tool and as an MCP server for AI agents (see MCP server).

• Rank dependents by stars — find the most popular projects that use a repository.
• Trust ranking — a heuristic, pool-relative re-rank that weighs forks, issues and pull requests, and recent activity alongside stars. Not a fraud verdict.
• Search code across dependents — see how real projects use an API.
• MCP server — the same ranking and search as tools for AI agents, via uvx or the ghcr.io/j7an/dep-rank Docker image.

Also: JSON output, package download stats, choosing among multiple packages, local cache, Docker image, Python API.

Quick Start

pip install dep-rank
export DEP_RANK_TOKEN=ghp_your_token_here   # see Authentication below
dep-rank deps https://github.com/django/django --rows 5

A token is effectively required; see Authentication. Example output (numbers change over time). dep-rank also prints a scrape summary on stderr; this run stopped early, so the count is a lower bound, not a total (see Partial results):

       Top dependents of
https://github.com/django/django
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┓
┃ Repository           ┃ Stars ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━┩
│ makeplane/plane      │   61K │
│ scalar/scalar        │   16K │
│ jetify-com/devbox    │   12K │
│ shiaho777/web-to-app │  7.1K │
│ WeblateOrg/weblate   │  6.1K │
└──────────────────────┴───────┘

178 dependents at or above the star threshold

CLI Reference

dep-rank deps — List top dependents

dep-rank deps https://github.com/django/django
dep-rank deps https://github.com/django/django --rows 20 --min-stars 100
dep-rank deps https://github.com/django/django --descriptions --format json
dep-rank deps https://github.com/django/django --packages

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