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Archive projects on GitHub

Web archiving and document preservation tools that save content for offline access.

As of , the most-starred Archive projects on GitHub are ChinaTextbook (82.9K stars), Apollo-11 (75.3K stars) and paperless-ngx (46.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 31 Archive repositories with 536.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Filee, with +297 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+297

Filee

KnifeLemon/Filee · ★ 1.3K

Filee is a free, open-source file converter for Windows, macOS and Linux that handles 180+ formats — images, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HWP/HWPX, video, audio, e-books, CAD and archives — by letting you drag files onto a floating format menu, all processed locally with no upload.

+93

Apollo-11

chrislgarry/Apollo-11 · ★ 75.3K

The original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code: the 1969 flight software for the Command Module (Comanche055) and the Lunar Module (Luminary099).

+87

leis

ctresb/leis · ★ 316

It is a repository that converts Brazil's entire body of law — the Federal Constitution plus federal, state, district and municipal norms — from official sources into plain Markdown, each file carrying a structured header and a link back to its source.

+41

paperless-ngx

paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx · ★ 46.8K

Paperless-ngx is a self-hosted document management system that turns scanned physical documents into a searchable online archive, with OCR, indexing and archiving built in.

The all-time top

31 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · TapXWorld/ChinaTextbook

    ChinaTextbook

    An open-source archive of PDF textbooks for Chinese primary school, middle school, high school and university courses, currently focused mainly on the full math curriculum from grade 1 through university.

    82.9K
  2. #2 · chrislgarry/Apollo-11

    Apollo-11

    The original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer (AGC) source code: the 1969 flight software for the Command Module (Comanche055) and the Lunar Module (Luminary099).

    75.3K
  3. #3 · paperless-ngx/paperless-ngx

    paperless-ngx

    Paperless-ngx is a self-hosted document management system that turns scanned physical documents into a searchable online archive, with OCR, indexing and archiving built in.

    46.8K
  1. 4

    node-v0.x-archive

    34.3Knodejs/node-v0.x-archive

    This is the archived repository of Node.js before it moved to the nodejs/node repo. It is kept for historical reference to old issues and pull requests from Node v0.10 and v0.12.

  2. 5

    AFNetworking

    33.3KAFNetworking/AFNetworking · Objective-C

    A delightful networking library for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS, built on the Foundation URL Loading System. Deprecated since January 2023 - the repo remains online as an archive.

  3. 6

    codemirror5

    27.2Kcodemirror/codemirror5 · JavaScript

    CodeMirror 5 is an in-browser code editor written in JavaScript, built for editing code with syntax highlighting and a rich API. This repo is the legacy version 5, now archived in favor of CodeMirror 6.

  4. 7

    SingleFile

    22.6Kgildas-lormeau/SingleFile · JavaScript

    SingleFile is a browser extension that saves a complete, faithful copy of any web page into a single HTML file you can keep and reopen later.

  5. 8

    linkwarden

    20.1Klinkwarden/linkwarden · TypeScript

    Linkwarden is a self-hosted, open-source collaborative bookmark manager: it collects webpages and articles in one place and saves a screenshot and PDF copy of each page, so your links stay accessible even after the original disappears.

  6. 9

    chrome-extensions-samples

    17.8KGoogleChrome/chrome-extensions-samples · JavaScript

    This is Google's official collection of sample Chrome Extensions (and legacy Chrome Apps) demonstrating how to use the various extension APIs.

  7. 10

    npm

    17.6Knpm/npm

    This is the original GitHub home of npm, the package manager for JavaScript and Node.js. The repository is now archived, and the project lives in a new repo.

  8. 11

    reddit

    17Kreddit-archive/reddit · Python

    This is the historical source code of reddit.com - the website's original Python and JavaScript codebase, preserved after the site stopped publishing its code.

  9. 12

    ChineseBQB

    16.3Kzhaoolee/ChineseBQB · Python

    ChineseBQB is a huge open collection of Chinese internet memes and sticker images (emoji packs), organized into themed folders covering pop culture, celebrities, games, anime, and historical internet memes, plus an online tool to search and share them.

  10. 13

    monolith

    15.5KY2Z/monolith · Rust

    Monolith bundles any web page into a single, self-contained HTML5 file by embedding its CSS, images, and JavaScript as data URLs, so the page renders exactly as it did online even without a network connection.

  11. 14

    kkFileView

    14.8Kkekingcn/kkFileView · Java

    kkFileView is a self-hosted Spring Boot server that lets you preview dozens of document, CAD, 3D model, image, audio, video and archive formats directly in a browser, without downloading the file, through a REST API.

  12. 15

    f8app

    13.9Kfbsamples/f8app · JavaScript

    This is the complete source code of the official F8 app from Facebook's 2017 developer conference, which was published on both Google Play and the App Store.

  13. 16

    BBDown

    13.9Knilaoda/BBDown · C#

    BBDown is a command-line downloader for Bilibili videos, written in C#.

  14. 17

    shiori

    11.7Kgo-shiori/shiori · Go

    Shiori is a simple bookmark manager written in Go, built as a clone of Pocket. It saves, organizes and archives web pages so you keep access to them even if the original page disappears.

  15. 18

    jwt-go

    10.7Kdgrijalva/jwt-go · Go

    A Go library implementing JSON Web Tokens (JWT): it parses, verifies, generates, and signs tokens.

  16. 19

    socket.io-client

    10.6Ksocketio/socket.io-client

    The official Socket.IO client: the browser and Node.js side of Socket.IO, a realtime application framework for exchanging events between clients and a server.

  17. 20

    chinese-dos-games

    10.3Krwv/chinese-dos-games · Python

    A collection of 1,898 classic Chinese DOS games, playable directly in the browser. The project hosts the game files themselves and links to a website built around them.

  18. 21

    pdfs

    10.2Ktpn/pdfs · HTML

    A large, technically-oriented collection of PDFs — papers, specs, decks and manuals — kept as a public GitHub repo, with a companion site for browsing and searching it at tpn.github.io/pdfs.

  19. 22

    dmca

    6.4Kgithub/dmca · DIGITAL Command Language

    This is GitHub's public archive of DMCA takedown notices and counter-notices it has received, posted largely as-is to document their potential effect on online speech.

  20. 23

    TOTK-Mods-collection

    3.1Khoverbike1/TOTK-Mods-collection · Shell

    A community repository of mods for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (TOTK), put together for playing the game on a real Switch or in Switch emulators.

  21. 24

    MacPacker

    1.3Ksarensw/MacPacker · Swift

    MacPacker is a free, open source archive manager for macOS that lets you browse archives like folders, preview files without extracting, and drag out only the files you need. It's meant as a native 7-Zip replacement for the Mac.

  22. 25

    Filee

    1.3KKnifeLemon/Filee · C#

    Filee is a free, open-source file converter for Windows, macOS and Linux that handles 180+ formats — images, PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HWP/HWPX, video, audio, e-books, CAD and archives — by letting you drag files onto a floating format menu, all processed locally with no upload.

  23. 26

    LEAKSFORUMS

    364FSECDEV/LEAKSFORUMS

    LEAKSFORUMS is a collection of leaked data from hacker forums — a README table listing breached communities like Breached Forums, Black Market Reloaded, and Russian boards, each with a download link.

  24. 27

    wechat-ai-memory

    346ikevss/wechat-ai-memory

    A local-first Windows app that reads your WeChat 4.x chats directly, lets you filter them by conversation, date range and keyword, and exports the result as PDF, Markdown and structured JSON to build a personal, traceable chat memory archive.

  25. 28

    world.execute-me-ascii

    327yym8224961/world.execute-me-ascii · Python

    A terminal ASCII-animation music video player for Mili's song 'world.execute(me);', featuring bilingual Chinese/English subtitles synced to the original track.

  26. 29

    leis

    316ctresb/leis

    It is a repository that converts Brazil's entire body of law — the Federal Constitution plus federal, state, district and municipal norms — from official sources into plain Markdown, each file carrying a structured header and a link back to its source.

  27. 30

    ganjoor-data

    240ganjoor/ganjoor-data

    A public, git-tracked export of the poetry content from Ganjoor (poets, categories, and poems), generated from the GanjoorService backend. It currently covers 240 poets and 135,319 poems.

  28. 31

    steam2_downloader

    229extremebleem/steam2_downloader · C#

    A desktop browser and downloader for the 'terarelease' Steam2 content leak - a dump of 10,876 depots and 116,339 files totaling 13.3 TB. It shows what the archive holds, works out which files a given depot version actually needs, downloads them, verifies them with sha256, and unpacks them.

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