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imsnif/bandwhich

Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bandwidth #cli #dashboard #networking

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-06
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 54 open

11,853

stars

Forks: 343
Commits: 663 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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streamlink/streamlink

Streamlink is a CLI utility which pipes video streams from various services into a video player

Stack

Python pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#cli #livestream #python #streaming #streaming-services #streamlink

Updated: 2026-07-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-15
History: 6 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 72 open

11,617

stars

Forks: 1,187
Commits: 5,964 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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maaslalani/slides

Terminal based presentation tool

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#markdown #presentation #slides #terminal

Updated: 2024-08-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-05
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 77 open

11,562

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 254 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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kefranabg/readme-md-generator

📄 CLI that generates beautiful README.md files

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #generator #readme #readme-badges #readme-generator #readme-md

Updated: 2022-09-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-06-03
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

11,125

stars

Forks: 1,373
Commits: 180 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mawww/kakoune

mawww's experiment for a better code editor

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #console-application #kakoune #modal-editing #text-editor #vim

Updated: 2026-06-16
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-02
History: 5 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 910 open

10,968

stars

Forks: 774
Commits: 11,068 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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gleitz/howdoi

instant coding answers via the command line

Stack

Python npm pip

Updated: 2026-04-15
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

10,844

stars

Forks: 863
Commits: 984 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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raineorshine/npm-check-updates

Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows

Stack

TypeScript Express Vite Bun npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#npm #npm-check-updates

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-07
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 72 open

10,273

stars

Forks: 367
Commits: 2,811 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xo/usql

Universal command-line interface for SQL databases

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#command-line #database #go #golang #mariadb #microsoft-sql-server

Updated: 2026-06-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-02
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 117 open

10,027

stars

Forks: 396
Commits: 1,183 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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vercel/serve

Static file serving and directory listing

Stack

TypeScript Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#cli #command #http #node

Updated: 2026-06-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-27
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 148 open

9,874

stars

Forks: 701
Commits: 782 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

gokcehan/lf

Terminal file manager

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#file-manager #terminal

Updated: 2026-06-25
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-13
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 73 open

9,374

stars

Forks: 369
Commits: 1,563 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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klaudiosinani/taskbook

Tasks, boards & notes for the command-line habitat

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#board #cli #note #task #todo

Updated: 2025-11-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-02-12
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 101 open

9,331

stars

Forks: 396
Commits: 245 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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rastapasta/mapscii

🗺 MapSCII is a Braille & ASCII world map renderer for your console - enter => telnet mapscii.me <= on Mac (brew install telnet) and Linux, connect with PuTTY on Windows

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#ascii-art #braille #console #console-application #map #openstreetmap

Updated: 2024-11-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-09-18
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

9,175

stars

Forks: 293
Commits: 290 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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saulpw/visidata

A terminal spreadsheet multitool for discovering and arranging data

AI dev

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#cli #csv #datajournalism #datawrangling #devops-tools #eda

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-06
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 60 open

9,164

stars

Forks: 352
Commits: 8,734 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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httpie/http-prompt

An interactive command-line HTTP and API testing client built on top of HTTPie featuring autocomplete, syntax highlighting, and more. https://twitter.com/httpie

Stack

Python pytest pip

GitHub topics

#api #api-cli #api-testing #autocomplete #cli #developer-tools

Updated: 2024-05-21
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-04-06
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 56 open

9,101

stars

Forks: 343
Commits: 391 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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release-it/release-it

🚀 Automate versioning and package publishing

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#automation #bump #changelog #ci-mode #cli #continuous-delivery

Updated: 2026-06-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-01-14
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 53 open

8,985

stars

Forks: 568
Commits: 2,026 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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akavel/up

Ultimate Plumber is a tool for writing Linux pipes with instant live preview

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#instant-preview #linux #live-programming #pipes #tui #up

Updated: 2024-09-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-03
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 30 open

8,834

stars

Forks: 129
Commits: 131 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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mps-youtube/yewtube

yewtube, forked from mps-youtube , is a Terminal based YouTube player and downloader. No Youtube API key required.

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip Pipenv

Updated: 2026-03-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-17
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 225 open

8,753

stars

Forks: 670
Commits: 2,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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schachmat/wego

weather app for the terminal

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#ascii-art #ascii-table #forecast #go #hacktoberfest #terminal

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-21
History: 6 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 15 open

8,509

stars

Forks: 506
Commits: 193 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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boyter/scc

Sloc, Cloc and Code: scc is a very fast accurate code counter with complexity calculations and COCOMO estimates written in pure Go

Stack

Go Cobra Bundler CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #cloc #code #complexity #golang #linux

Updated: 2026-06-29
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-01
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 27 open

8,490

stars

Forks: 321
Commits: 1,629 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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xwmx/nb

CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

Stack

Shell Bundler Go modules npm

GitHub topics

#archiving #bash #bookmark-manager #bookmarks #cli #command-line

Updated: 2026-07-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-13
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 150 open

8,282

stars

Forks: 252
Commits: 7,830 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

pemistahl/grex

A command-line tool and Rust library with Python bindings for generating regular expressions from user-provided test cases

Stack

Rust pytest Cargo PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cli #command-line-tool #python #python-library #regex #regex-pattern

Updated: 2026-02-27
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-10-05
History: 5 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 18 open

8,153

stars

Forks: 194
Commits: 445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

TomWright/dasel

Unified querying, transformation, and modification of JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL, KDL and CSV.

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#cli #config #configuration #data-processing #data-structures #data-wrangling

Updated: 2026-06-27
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-22
History: 6 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 20 open

7,988

stars

Forks: 167
Commits: 874 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

nilbuild/git-standup

Recall what you or your team did on the last working day

Stack

Shell npm

GitHub topics

#agile #git #git- #git-addons #git-standup #meeting

Updated: 2025-07-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2016-04-09
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

7,846

stars

Forks: 320
Commits: 156 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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Narcooo/inkos

Story Creation AI Agent for novel, scripts, interactive games, and IP content

Stack

TypeScript Express React Tailwind CSS Vite npm pnpm

GitHub topics

#ai #ai-agent #ai-game #ai-writing #chinese-novel #creative-writing-ai

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-11
History: 5 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 190 open

7,713

stars

Forks: 1,447
Commits: 1,408 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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sindresorhus/np

A better `npm publish`

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #javascript #nodejs #npm #npm-package

Updated: 2026-07-05
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-16
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

7,698

stars

Forks: 311
Commits: 484 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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soimort/translate-shell

:speech_balloon: Command-line translator using Google Translate, Bing Translator, Yandex.Translate, etc.

Stack

Awk

Updated: 2024-12-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-08-12
History: 5 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 116 open

7,480

stars

Forks: 393
Commits: 930 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

timvisee/ffsend

:mailbox_with_mail: Easily and securely share files from the command line. A fully featured Firefox Send client.

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#cli #encryption #file-sharing #file-upload #firefox-send #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2025-11-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-03-05
History: 5 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 33 open

7,360

stars

Forks: 207
Commits: 923 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

jarun/buku

:bookmark: Personal mini-web in text

Stack

Python Flask pytest pip uv

GitHub topics

#bookmark #bookmark-manager #bookmarks #cli #command-line #console

Updated: 2026-07-03
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2015-11-01
History: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 4 open

7,161

stars

Forks: 317
Commits: 2,250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

gopasspw/gopass

The slightly more awesome standard unix password manager for teams

AI dev

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#git #go #gpg #hacktoberfest #password-manager #security

Updated: 2026-07-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-02
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 99 open

6,994

stars

Forks: 544
Commits: 2,239 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

sindresorhus/fkill-cli

Fabulously kill processes. Cross-platform.

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

#cli #cli-app #cross-platform #fabulous #javascript #kill

Updated: 2025-11-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-06-20
History: 5 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 7 open

6,994

stars

Forks: 212
Commits: 103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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