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Metadata projects on GitHub

Data catalogs and tools for managing dataset and asset metadata.

As of , the most-starred Metadata projects on GitHub are spotube (50.1K stars), shields (27.3K stars) and dagster (16.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 22 Metadata repositories with 228.3K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was os-taxonomy, with +473 stars in a day.

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+473

os-taxonomy

withmarbleapp/os-taxonomy · ★ 5.6K

Marble Skill Taxonomy is an open dataset mapping what children learn in primary/elementary school, broken into 1,590 fine-grained micro-topics linked by a prerequisite graph and aligned to national curriculum standards like NGSS and Common Core.

+48

spotube

team-spotube/spotube · ★ 50.1K

Spotube is an open-source, cross-platform music streaming app for desktop and mobile that lets you bring your own music metadata, playlists, and audio sources through plugins instead of relying on one locked-in backend.

+19

amane

sqzw-x/amane · ★ 828

Amane is a personal video library manager for the AI era: it watches your media folders, automatically scrapes metadata from multiple sources, and lets you browse the result through a web poster wall with an AI assistant for search and organization.

+11

remove-ai-watermarks

wiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks · ★ 6K

A Python library and CLI that removes visible and invisible AI watermarks and provenance metadata (SynthID, C2PA, EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and vendor marks like Gemini's sparkle) from images and videos you generated yourself.

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22 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · team-spotube/spotube

    spotube

    Spotube is an open-source, cross-platform music streaming app for desktop and mobile that lets you bring your own music metadata, playlists, and audio sources through plugins instead of relying on one locked-in backend.

    50.1K
  2. #2 · badges/shields

    shields

    Shields.io — a service for concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format, designed to be embedded in GitHub readmes or any other web page.

    27.3K
  3. #3 · dagster-io/dagster

    dagster

    Dagster is a cloud-native data pipeline orchestrator covering the whole development lifecycle: it builds, runs, and observes data assets like tables, datasets, ML models, and reports, with built-in lineage and observability.

    16.3K
  1. 4

    beets

    15.8Kbeetbox/beets · Python

    Beets is the media library management system for obsessive music geeks: it catalogs your music collection, automatically improving its metadata as it goes, and then gives you a suite of tools for manipulating and accessing your music.

  2. 5

    OpenMetadata

    15.5Kopen-metadata/OpenMetadata · TypeScript

    OpenMetadata is an open platform that unifies technical metadata, lineage, data quality, ownership and business glossaries into one knowledge graph so both humans and AI agents can discover, trust and reuse context about enterprise data.

  3. 6

    instaloader

    13.6Kinstaloader/instaloader · Python

    Instaloader downloads pictures and videos from Instagram profiles, hashtags, stories, feeds, and saved media, along with captions, comments, geotags, and other metadata.

  4. 7

    stash

    13.1Kstashapp/stash · Go

    Stash is a self-hosted webapp written in Go that organizes and serves your personal video/image collection (SFW or NSFW), pulling in metadata like performers, tags, and studios from online scrapers.

  5. 8

    datahub

    12.9Kdatahub-project/datahub · Python

    DataHub is an open-source metadata platform that lets you discover, understand, and govern data across your entire data stack, connecting warehouses, lakes, BI tools, and AI agents into one unified metadata graph.

  6. 9

    Kavita

    11.9KKareadita/Kavita · C#

    Kavita is a self-hosted, cross-platform reading server for managing and reading your own digital library, covering manga, comics, webtoons and ebooks in one place.

  7. 10

    SpotiFlyer

    11.3KShabinder/SpotiFlyer · Kotlin

    SpotiFlyer is a Kotlin Multiplatform app that downloads albums, playlists and tracks from Spotify, YouTube, YouTube Music, Gaana, Jio Saavn and SoundCloud, saving them locally instead of streaming.

  8. 11

    pypdf

    10.3Kpy-pdf/pypdf · Python

    A free and open-source pure-python PDF library: it splits, merges, crops and transforms the pages of PDF files, and can add custom data, viewing options and passwords to them.

  9. 12

    knowledge-catalog

    9.5KGoogleCloudPlatform/knowledge-catalog · TypeScript

    This is the samples and tools repository for Google Cloud's Knowledge Catalog, an AI-powered data catalog and metadata management platform (formerly called Dataplex) that builds a dynamic knowledge graph over structured and unstructured data to give AI agents semantic and business context.

  10. 13

    remove-ai-watermarks

    6Kwiltodelta/remove-ai-watermarks · Python

    A Python library and CLI that removes visible and invisible AI watermarks and provenance metadata (SynthID, C2PA, EXIF, IPTC, XMP, and vendor marks like Gemini's sparkle) from images and videos you generated yourself.

  11. 14

    os-taxonomy

    5.6Kwithmarbleapp/os-taxonomy · JavaScript

    Marble Skill Taxonomy is an open dataset mapping what children learn in primary/elementary school, broken into 1,590 fine-grained micro-topics linked by a prerequisite graph and aligned to national curriculum standards like NGSS and Common Core.

  12. 15

    grimmory

    4.5Kgrimmory-tools/grimmory · Java

    Grimmory is a self-hosted digital library for managing and reading your own ebooks, comics, and audiobooks, with built-in reading, metadata lookup, and progress sync.

  13. 16

    onthespot

    1.8Kots-downloader/onthespot · Python

    OnTheSpot is a free, open-source music downloader written in Python. It pulls tracks from streaming services like Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, Deezer, Qobuz and Bandcamp.

  14. 17

    javranking-extension

    907aizhimou/javranking-extension · TypeScript

    A browser extension that reads the JAV video code on the page you're currently viewing — only after you click its toolbar icon — and shows matching cover art and JavRanking leaderboard info for that title.

  15. 18

    amane

    828sqzw-x/amane · Python

    Amane is a personal video library manager for the AI era: it watches your media folders, automatically scrapes metadata from multiple sources, and lets you browse the result through a web poster wall with an AI assistant for search and organization.

  16. 19

    awesome-dsh-plugin

    418bruc3van/awesome-dsh-plugin · JavaScript

    A curated, auto-updating directory of DeepSeek Harness (DSH) plugins. It crawls GitHub daily for repos tagged dsh-plugin, manually reviews each one to remove tag-squatters, and organizes real plugins by category, popularity, and use case so you can find the right one in about 30 seconds.

  17. 20

    libfyaml

    346pantoniou/libfyaml · C

    libfyaml is a high-performance YAML 1.2 and JSON parser/emitter for C, built for zero-copy operation with full document-tree and event-streaming APIs, and it passes the full YAML testsuite.

  18. 21

    noai-watermark

    209mertizci/noai-watermark · Python

    noai-watermark is an open-source CLI and Python toolkit that uses diffusion-based image regeneration to disrupt invisible AI watermarks (like Google SynthID, StableSignature, TreeRing) embedded in generated images, and it also inspects/strips AI metadata (EXIF, PNG text chunks, C2PA manifests).

  19. 22

    anthropies

    191CharlesHoskinson/anthropies · TypeScript

    Anthropies is a CLI tool and local HTTP service that strips vendor marks (invisible Unicode, trailers, banners, C2PA and file metadata) from AI-generated outputs you already own. It explicitly does not remove Anthropic's core keyed text watermark — only the metadata and formatting layers around it.

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