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Socket projects on GitHub

Low-level network socket programming, proxies, and scanning tools.

As of , the most-starred Socket projects on GitHub are netty (35.1K stars), mcp-for-blender (31.4K stars) and sails (22.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 14 Socket repositories with 231.4K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was mcp-for-blender, with +201 stars in a day.

14Projects
231.4KStars in total
+261Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+201

mcp-for-blender

ahujasid/mcp-for-blender · ★ 31.4K

A community integration that connects Blender to any LLM through the Model Context Protocol, letting an AI assistant do prompt-assisted 3D modeling, scene creation and manipulation. It is third-party and not affiliated with the Blender Foundation.

+20

Free-servers

Pawdroid/Free-servers · ★ 19.5K

A free share of proxy-server subscription addresses and nodes for Clash, SS/SSR, V2Ray, Trojan and VLESS — speed-tested by hand and refreshed every 6 hours, completely free.

+17

KiwiDesk

KiwiCanopy/KiwiDesk · ★ 174

KiwiDesk is a tiling window manager for macOS that tiles your windows automatically with no config file required, controlled through a native Settings app, while still exposing a Lua config, CLI and socket for power users underneath.

+14

nmap

nmap/nmap · ★ 13.8K

Nmap is the Network Mapper — a free, open-source tool for network discovery and security scanning. It finds live hosts, open ports, and the services running on them, from a single machine up to whole subnets.

The all-time top

14 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · netty/netty

    netty

    Netty is an asynchronous, event-driven network application framework for Java, used to rapidly build maintainable, high-performance protocol servers and clients.

    35.1K
  2. #2 · ahujasid/mcp-for-blender

    mcp-for-blender

    A community integration that connects Blender to any LLM through the Model Context Protocol, letting an AI assistant do prompt-assisted 3D modeling, scene creation and manipulation. It is third-party and not affiliated with the Blender Foundation.

    31.4K
  3. #3 · balderdashy/sails

    sails

    Sails.js is a realtime MVC web framework for Node.js, designed to make it easy to build custom, enterprise-grade apps and APIs, with a structure inspired by Ruby on Rails.

    22.8K
  1. 4

    Free-servers

    19.5KPawdroid/Free-servers

    A free share of proxy-server subscription addresses and nodes for Clash, SS/SSR, V2Ray, Trojan and VLESS — speed-tested by hand and refreshed every 6 hours, completely free.

  2. 5

    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.

  3. 6

    goproxy

    17.1Ksnail007/goproxy · Go

    goproxy is a high-performance proxy server written in Go. A single binary handles HTTP(S), SOCKS5, SS, WebSocket, TCP and UDP proxying, plus TCP/UDP port forwarding and intranet penetration for exposing servers behind NAT.

  4. 7

    kcp

    16.9Kskywind3000/kcp · C

    KCP is a fast, reliable ARQ protocol for realtime traffic: it trades 10-20% extra bandwidth for 30-40% lower average latency and up to 3x lower maximum latency than TCP.

  5. 8

    vert.x

    14.7Keclipse-vertx/vert.x · Java

    Vert.x Core is a toolkit for building reactive, event-driven applications on the JVM, providing low-level support for HTTP, TCP, file system access, and more.

  6. 9

    nmap

    13.8Knmap/nmap · C

    Nmap is the Network Mapper — a free, open-source tool for network discovery and security scanning. It finds live hosts, open ports, and the services running on them, from a single machine up to whole subnets.

  7. 10

    CocoaAsyncSocket

    12.4Krobbiehanson/CocoaAsyncSocket · Objective-C

    CocoaAsyncSocket is an asynchronous socket networking library for macOS, iOS, and tvOS, providing TCP and UDP classes built on Grand Central Dispatch.

  8. 11

    Tinyhttpd

    12.2KEZLippi/Tinyhttpd · C

    Tinyhttpd is a minimal HTTP server written in C, originally created by J. David Blackstone in 1999 as a class assignment; this repo is an unofficial mirror of the SourceForge project kept around purely for learning how HTTP servers work at the socket level.

  9. 12

    workerman

    11.5Kwalkor/workerman · PHP

    Workerman is an asynchronous event-driven PHP framework for building fast, scalable network applications, with built-in support for HTTP, WebSocket, TCP, and custom protocols.

  10. 13

    Website-downloader

    6KAhmadIbrahiim/Website-downloader · HTML

    A self-hosted Node.js app that downloads the complete source code of any website, including its JavaScript, stylesheets, and images, so you can keep an offline copy.

  11. 14

    KiwiDesk

    174KiwiCanopy/KiwiDesk · Swift

    KiwiDesk is a tiling window manager for macOS that tiles your windows automatically with no config file required, controlled through a native Settings app, while still exposing a Lua config, CLI and socket for power users underneath.

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