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Network projects on GitHub

Network monitoring, configuration, and analysis tools.

As of , the most-starred Network projects on GitHub are the-book-of-secret-knowledge (250.7K stars), curl (43.1K stars) and fuels-rs (43K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 49 Network repositories with 1.2M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was the-book-of-secret-knowledge, with +311 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+311

the-book-of-secret-knowledge

trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge · ★ 250.7K

A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

+33

deskflow

deskflow/deskflow · ★ 29.8K

A free, open-source app that lets the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer control several nearby computers, moving seamlessly between them — like a software KVM but without the video.

+31

stats

exelban/stats · ★ 42.6K

A free, open-source macOS system monitor in your menu bar: it shows CPU, GPU, memory, disk and network usage, battery level, temperatures, Bluetooth devices and a multi-timezone clock.

+17

curl

curl/curl · ★ 43.1K

curl is a command-line tool and library (libcurl) for transferring data to or from a server using URL syntax.

The all-time top

49 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    the-book-of-secret-knowledge

    A massive curated collection of lists, manuals, cheatsheets, blogs, hacks, one-liners and CLI/GUI/web tools that the author gathers from everyday sysadmin, DevOps and security work.

    250.7K
  2. #2 · curl/curl

    curl

    curl is a command-line tool and library (libcurl) for transferring data to or from a server using URL syntax.

    43.1K
  3. #3 · FuelLabs/fuels-rs

    fuels-rs

    fuels-rs is the official Rust SDK for the Fuel Network, used to compile, deploy and test Sway smart contracts, launch a local Fuel node, craft and sign transactions, and generate type-safe Rust bindings for contract calls.

    43K
  1. 4

    fuels-ts

    42.9KFuelLabs/fuels-ts · TypeScript

    fuels-ts is the official TypeScript SDK for Fuel Network, letting developers build dApps, interact with Sway smart contracts, and connect to Fuel nodes from JavaScript/TypeScript.

  2. 5

    stats

    42.6Kexelban/stats · Swift

    A free, open-source macOS system monitor in your menu bar: it shows CPU, GPU, memory, disk and network usage, battery level, temperatures, Bluetooth devices and a multi-timezone clock.

  3. 6

    Xray-core

    42.2KXTLS/Xray-core · Go

    Xray-core is the engine of 'Project X', a networking/proxy platform that implements protocols like VLESS, VMess, Trojan and Shadowsocks, with REALITY and XTLS for traffic obfuscation and censorship circumvention.

  4. 7

    sniffnet

    41.6KGyulyVGC/sniffnet · Rust

    Sniffnet is a cross-platform desktop app for monitoring your network traffic in real time, with a graphical interface instead of raw terminal output.

  5. 8

    interview_internal_reference

    37.3K0voice/interview_internal_reference · Python

    A curated collection of real technical interview questions and answers from major Chinese tech companies — Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, Meituan, ByteDance and more — with analysis from expert interviewers.

  6. 9

    v2ray-core

    34.7Kv2fly/v2ray-core · Go

    V2Ray (Project V) is a set of network tools for building your own proxy network, encrypting your connections to protect privacy and bypass network restrictions like censorship.

  7. 10

    AndroidUtilCode

    33.6KBlankj/AndroidUtilCode · Java

    AndroidUtilCode is a powerful and easy-to-use library of utility classes for Android development, collecting commonly used helper functions so developers do not have to rewrite them in every project.

  8. 11

    TrackersListCollection

    32.3KXIU2/TrackersListCollection

    A continuously updated collection of public BitTorrent tracker URLs, split into several text files (best, all, HTTP-only, HTTP-free) that you paste into any BT client to speed up downloads.

  9. 12

    hosts

    31.2KStevenBlack/hosts · Python

    A community-maintained aggregator that merges many reputable hosts files into one unified blocklist with duplicates removed — the base variant combines adware and malware lists and holds 80,169 entries.

  10. 13

    ProxmoxVE

    29.8Kcommunity-scripts/ProxmoxVE · Shell

    A community-maintained set of one-command install scripts for Proxmox VE: paste a single line into your Proxmox shell and it sets up a popular self-hosted service as a ready container or VM.

  11. 14

    deskflow

    29.8Kdeskflow/deskflow · C++

    A free, open-source app that lets the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad of one computer control several nearby computers, moving seamlessly between them — like a software KVM but without the video.

  12. 15

    GoodbyeDPI

    28.8KValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI · C

    A free Windows utility that bypasses Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) systems ISPs use to block websites. It handles both passive DPI (optical splitter or port mirroring) and active DPI connected in sequence.

  13. 16

    setup-ipsec-vpn

    28.7Khwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn · Shell

    A set of shell scripts that turns a fresh Linux server into your own IPsec VPN server in minutes, with IPsec/L2TP, Cisco IPsec and IKEv2 modes. Traffic is encrypted so nobody between you and the server can eavesdrop.

  14. 17

    netbox

    21.7Knetbox-community/netbox · Python

    NetBox is the open-source source of truth for network infrastructure: it models and documents everything networked — racks, cables, IP addresses — and serves that data to your automation tools.

  15. 18

    ml-engineering

    19.5Kstas00/ml-engineering · Python

    An open book on machine learning engineering: methodologies, tools and step-by-step instructions for training, fine-tuning and running inference on large language models and multi-modal (VLM) models, written by the engineer who led the BLOOM-176B training.

  16. 19

    CS-Base

    18.5Kxiaolincoder/CS-Base

    This is a free, illustrated Chinese guide to core computer science fundamentals - computer networking, operating systems, computer organization, and databases - built from over 1,000 diagrams and 500,000+ words, aimed at making notoriously dry CS topics (and common interview questions) actually understandable.

  17. 20

    mars

    17.7KTencent/mars · C++

    Mars is a cross-platform network component library built by WeChat's mobile team — the same infrastructure proven by billions of WeChat users. It bundles mobile-optimized networking, logging and network diagnostics for embedding in your own app.

  18. 21

    impacket

    16.2Kfortra/impacket · Python

    Impacket is a collection of Python classes for working with network protocols, giving low-level programmatic access to packets and, for some protocols like SMB1-3 and MSRPC, full protocol implementations.

  19. 22

    fscan

    14.7Kshadow1ng/fscan · Go

    fscan is an open-source intranet scanner written in Go: one command runs an all-round internal-network audit — host discovery, port scanning, service identification, weak-password brute force and vulnerability detection.

  20. 23

    rathole

    14.3Krathole-org/rathole · Rust

    Rathole is a secure, stable, high-performance reverse proxy written in Rust that exposes a service running on a device behind NAT to the Internet through a server with a public IP, similar to frp and ngrok.

  21. 24

    gobuster

    14.2KOJ/gobuster · Go

    Gobuster is a fast, multi-threaded command-line tool written in Go for brute-forcing web directories/files, DNS subdomains, and virtual hosts, plus enumerating S3/GCS cloud storage buckets and TFTP files.

  22. 25

    ddgksf2013

    13.7Kddgksf2013/ddgksf2013

    A curated Chinese-language collection of ad-blocking and app-purification configs, rewrite rules and scripts for iOS proxy apps — centered on Quantumult X, with Shadowrocket, Surge and Clash configs also included.

  23. 26

    SoftEtherVPN

    13.7KSoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN · C

    SoftEther VPN is a free, open-source, cross-platform VPN program where a single server can speak SSL-VPN, WireGuard, OpenVPN, IPsec, L2TP, MS-SSTP, L2TPv3 and EtherIP.

  24. 27

    LuLu

    13.3Kobjective-see/LuLu · Objective-C

    LuLu is a free, open-source firewall for macOS: it watches the network connections apps on your Mac try to make and lets you allow or block them.

  25. 28

    dio

    12.8Kcfug/dio · Dart

    dio is a powerful open-source HTTP client for Dart and Flutter, with around 12.8k GitHub stars. This repo is its base monorepo, holding the core package, its plugins and example apps.

  26. 29

    scapy

    12.6Ksecdev/scapy · Python

    Scapy is a Python-based interactive packet manipulation program and library that lets you forge, decode, send, capture, and analyze network packets.

  27. 30

    fsociety

    12.3KManisso/fsociety · Python

    fsociety is a penetration testing toolkit that bundles dozens of existing hacking tools (Nmap, sqlmap, WPScan, Reaver, etc.) behind one menu-driven script, inspired by the tools used in the 'Mr. Robot' TV series.

  28. 31

    G6

    12.3Kantvis/G6 · TypeScript

    G6 is a graph visualization framework for the web: an engine for drawing, laying out, analyzing and interacting with relational data like networks, with animation, themes and plugins.

  29. 32

    TikTok-Unlock

    12.2KSemporia/TikTok-Unlock · JavaScript

    A README-based guide and rule-set for unlocking region-locked TikTok content on iPhone/iPad without swapping SIM cards, covering region switching, video posting, live streaming, likes, comments, and DMs.

  30. 33

    MyIP

    12.1Kjason5ng32/MyIP · JavaScript

    MyIP is a self-hostable, all-in-one IP toolbox: it checks your IP and geolocation from multiple sources, tests for WebRTC and DNS leaks, runs IP quality and browser fingerprint checks, speed tests, global latency and MTR tests, Whois lookups, censorship checks, and more.

  31. 34

    test-your-sysadmin-skills

    11.9Ktrimstray/test-your-sysadmin-skills

    A free collection of 284 Linux/Unix sysadmin test questions with example answers, built to check your own knowledge or to run interviews and exams for sysadmin positions.

  32. 35

    psutil

    11.3Kgiampaolo/psutil · Python

    psutil is a cross-platform Python library for retrieving information about running processes and system utilization: CPU, memory, disks, network and sensors.

  33. 36

    gnet

    11.2Kpanjf2000/gnet · Go

    gnet is a high-performance, lightweight, non-blocking, event-driven networking framework written in pure Go, built on epoll and kqueue to work at the transport layer with TCP, UDP, and Unix Domain Socket.

  34. 37

    cytoscape.js

    11.2Kcytoscape/cytoscape.js · JavaScript

    Cytoscape.js is a graph theory (network) library for modeling, visualizing, and analyzing relational data such as biological networks or social networks, usable in the browser or in Node.js.

  35. 38

    netshoot

    11Knicolaka/netshoot · Shell

    netshoot is a Docker and Kubernetes network troubleshooting container, a 'swiss-army' image packed with networking, DNS, performance, and security tools for debugging container and host network issues.

  36. 39

    libzmq

    11Kzeromq/libzmq · C++

    libzmq is the core engine of ZeroMQ — a lightweight messaging kernel written in C++ that implements the ZMTP/3.1 protocol.

  37. 40

    bbot

    10.7Kblacklanternsecurity/bbot · Python

    BBOT is a recursive internet scanner for hackers — it automates recon, bug bounty work and attack surface management (ASM), inspired by Spiderfoot.

  38. 41

    awesome-honeypots

    10.6Kparalax/awesome-honeypots · Python

    A curated, categorized list of honeypot software and related tools used by security researchers to deceive attackers, log their behavior, and study exploitation attempts.

  39. 42

    ClashMac

    6.3K666OS/ClashMac

    ClashMac is a native macOS proxy client built entirely in SwiftUI around the Clash/Mihomo engine, with a real-time dashboard, system-wide TUN proxying, and a built-in anti-detect fingerprint browser.

  40. 43

    telemt

    5.7Ktelemt/telemt · Rust

    Telemt is a fast, secure, feature-rich MTProxy server for Telegram, built in Rust with Tokio, implementing the official MTProto proxy algorithm plus extra production-ready features.

  41. 44

    wireguard-install

    3.1Khwdsl2/wireguard-install · Shell

    A shell script that automatically installs and configures a WireGuard VPN server on Linux, letting you set up your own VPN in a few minutes without prior WireGuard experience.

  42. 45

    mtproto.zig

    2.1Ksleep3r/mtproto.zig · Zig

    mtproto.zig is a tiny self-hosted MTProto proxy for Telegram that disguises your traffic as ordinary TLS 1.3 HTTPS, so censors and DPI filters can't tell it's Telegram. You run it on your own cheap VPS and share a single tg:// link with people who want their Telegram unblocked.

  43. 46

    mu300-linux

    587dikeckaan/mu300-linux · C

    This project turns the ZTE F50/MU300 and ZTE U30 Air 5G pocket hotspots into small Linux computers that run next to Android, giving you Ubuntu or OpenWrt with working Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SSH and the device's own 5G modem.

  44. 47

    Paxeer-X-Network

    571Sidiora-Labs/Paxeer-X-Network · Rust

    LayerX Network is a deterministic execution and accounting network for autonomous agents: every state-changing action enters as a signed, canonically encoded Activity that gets ordered, applied deterministically, and returned as a signed receipt, with periodic settlement to the Paxeer Network.

  45. 48

    lanmessenger

    374lanmessenger/lanmessenger · C++

    LAN Messenger is a native desktop chat application for Windows, Mac and Linux, built with Qt 6 and C++, that lets people exchange messages over a local area network. It also supports event sounds, a system tray/menu bar icon, and a multilanguage interface.

  46. 49

    JHS-enhance

    185fireinrain/JHS-enhance · JavaScript

    A Tampermonkey userscript that enhances adult-video browsing and tracking sites (JavDB, JavBus and others) with magnet-link search aggregation, filtering, translation, and 115 cloud-drive integration.

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