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How to Find Open Source Projects on Github Efficiently and Quickly

Richard
4 min readMay 22, 2022

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This article shares how to efficiently find the open-source projects you want on GitHub.

Photo by Roman Synkevych 🇺🇦 on Unsplash

First, let’s randomly search for a program project and see what information the project homepage contains:

As you can see from the above figure, the basic information contained in a project can be matched through the search box, so that the project can be found faster. Usually the number of star, the number of watch, and the fork indicate the popularity of a project. For example, if we want to search for projects with the keyword “web development” in the readme, the main programming language is “Python”, and if the star is greater than 3000, we can search:

"web development" in:readme language:python stars:>3000

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