meaningful-forks

Sort Github fork lists by the number of stars and commits ahead from the source repo.

Features

• Sort forks according to the number of effective stars (excluding fork author's own star)
• Sort forks according to the number of commits ahead from the source repo (displayed using a green up arrow)
• Show a flame symbol for forks more recent than the source repo

Installation

1. Install Tampermonkey for managing userscripts on Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Opera, or Safari.
2. Add script for meaningful-forks from dist/script.js to Tampermonkey
3. Replace the Github API access token (the constant variable) on the first line with your own. See this post on how to create a new access token. The reason for this is because Github API limits unauthorized requests to only 60 times per hour. (more details)

   !async function(){const e="f9765ac063fb541c632e7baec5bc91f0db0738dc",...

4. Add Userscript header to the top of Tampermonkey script

   // ==UserScript==
   // @name         meaningful-forks
   // @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
   // @version      0.1
   // @description  Sort Github fork lists by the number of stars and commits ahead from the source repo.
   // @author       Kevin Li
   // @match        https://github.com/*/network/members
   // @grant        none
   // ==/UserScript==

Now you can use meaningful-forks on any github page. To test this, go to the fork page for Angular. Your page should look similar to the demo image above.

Credits

Inspired by lovely-forks by Utkarsh Upadhyay.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.