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imsnif/bandwhich

Terminal bandwidth utilization tool

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#bandwidth #cli #dashboard #networking

Updated: 2026-08-01
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-09-06
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 55 open

11,885

stars

Forks: 344
Commits: 663 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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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: 2026-07-28
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2011-08-15
History: 7 history points
License: BSD-2-Clause
Issues: 77 open

11,661

stars

Forks: 1,190
Commits: 5,980 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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maaslalani/slides

Terminal based presentation tool

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#markdown #presentation #slides #terminal

Updated: 2026-07-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2021-04-05
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 77 open

11,612

stars

Forks: 313
Commits: 255 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: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2019-06-03
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 30 open

11,128

stars

Forks: 1,371
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: 2026-08-10
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-09-02
History: 7 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 915 open

11,021

stars

Forks: 775
Commits: 11,088 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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 29 open

10,843

stars

Forks: 863
Commits: 984 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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: 2026-08-07
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-09-07
History: 8 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 37 open

10,292

stars

Forks: 373
Commits: 2,901 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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 118 open

10,052

stars

Forks: 401
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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 148 open

9,895

stars

Forks: 703
Commits: 782 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

gokcehan/lf

Terminal file manager

Stack

Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#file-manager #terminal

Updated: 2026-08-02
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2016-08-13
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 81 open

9,446

stars

Forks: 372
Commits: 1,572 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: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 101 open

9,337

stars

Forks: 395
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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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: 2026-08-15
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2016-11-06
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 78 open

9,250

stars

Forks: 358
Commits: 8,744 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 52 open

9,222

stars

Forks: 296
Commits: 290 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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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: 11 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 56 open

9,105

stars

Forks: 345
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 pnpm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-08-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-01-14
History: 9 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 4 open

9,024

stars

Forks: 571
Commits: 2,052 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, translation, 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: 2026-08-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2026-03-11
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 219 open

8,860

stars

Forks: 1,664
Commits: 1,517 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: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 30 open

8,837

stars

Forks: 130
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: 9 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 226 open

8,778

stars

Forks: 671
Commits: 2,119 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

GitHub

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: 2026-08-08
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-01
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 31 open

8,605

stars

Forks: 332
Commits: 1,643 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: 2026-08-01
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-11-21
History: 7 history points
License: ISC
Issues: 17 open

8,522

stars

Forks: 506
Commits: 193 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: 2026-08-20
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2014-11-13
History: 7 history points
License: AGPL-3.0
Issues: 150 open

8,366

stars

Forks: 253
Commits: 7,851 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 18 open

8,170

stars

Forks: 196
Commits: 445 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 2026-08-01
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-09-22
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 23 open

8,010

stars

Forks: 173
Commits: 877 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: 10 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 24 open

7,847

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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sindresorhus/np

A better `npm publish`

Stack

JavaScript npm

GitHub topics

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

Updated: 2026-07-30
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-08-16
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 3 open

7,712

stars

Forks: 310
Commits: 492 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

GitHub

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: 7 history points
License: Unlicense
Issues: 116 open

7,498

stars

Forks: 392
Commits: 930 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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: 6 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 33 open

7,365

stars

Forks: 206
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: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 6 open

7,165

stars

Forks: 321
Commits: 2,250 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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: 2026-08-06
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-02-02
History: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 115 open

7,074

stars

Forks: 556
Commits: 2,251 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: 7 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 6 open

7,000

stars

Forks: 215
Commits: 103 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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