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Most active GitHub users (git.io/top)

The count of contributions (summary of Pull Requests, opened issues and commits) to public repos at GitHub.com from Sat, 29 Jun 2013 00:57:40 GMT till Sun, 29 Jun 2014 00:57:40 GMT.

Only first 1000 GitHub users according to the count of followers are taken. This is because of limitations of GitHub search. Sorting algo in pseudocode:

githubUsers
  .filter((user) -> user.followers > 62)
  .sortBy('contributions')
  .slice(0, 256)

Made with data mining of GitHub.com (raw data, script) by @paulmillr with contribs of @lifesinger. Updated once per week.

# User Contribs Language Location
#1 kevinsawicki (Kevin Sawicki) 11776 JavaScript Redwood City, CA
#2 taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell) 7951 Arkansas
#3 michaelklishin (Michael Klishin) 7617 Ruby
#4 JeroenDeDauw (Jeroen De Dauw) 7399 PHP The interwebs
#5 qiangxue (Qiang Xue) 7389 Virginia, U.S.A.
#6 brianchandotcom (Brian Chan) 7141 Java Los Angeles, CA
#7 fabpot (Fabien Potencier) 6445 PHP Paris, France
#8 mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto) 6055 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#9 jdalton (John-David Dalton) 5708 JavaScript http://twitter.com/jdalton
#10 ornicar (Thibault Duplessis) 5625 PHP France
#11 michalbe (Michał Budzyński) 5572 JavaScript Paris, France // Warsaw, Poland
#12 mdo (Mark Otto) 5455 CSS San Francisco, CA
#13 substack (James Halliday) 5387 JavaScript Oakland, California, USA
#14 kytrinyx (Katrina Owen) 5240 Ruby Santa Monica
#15 weierophinney (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) 5141 PHP Sioux Falls, SD, USA
#16 hadley (Hadley Wickham) 4973 R Houston, TX
#17 stefanpenner (Stefan Penner) 4899 JavaScript New York, New York
#18 springmeyer (Dane Springmeyer) 4839 C Winthrop, WA
#19 jonathanong (Jonathan Ong) 4683 JavaScript Los Angeles, CA
#20 feross (Feross Aboukhadijeh) 4581 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#21 mikermcneil (Mike McNeil) 4497 JavaScript Austin, TX
#22 rkh (Konstantin Haase) 4413 Ruby Berlin
#23 balupton (Benjamin Arthur Lupton) 4312 JavaScript Sydney, Australia
#24 tmcw (Tom MacWright) 4204 JavaScript Washington, DC
#25 dcramer (David Cramer) 4171 Python San Francisco, CA
#26 dg (David Grudl) 4093 PHP
#27 SamyPesse (Samy Pessé) 4088 JavaScript Albi, France / Palo Alto, CA
#28 bergie (Henri Bergius) 4053 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#29 remy (Remy Sharp) 3960 JavaScript Brighton, UK
#30 dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) 3932 JavaScript New Zealand
#31 visionmedia (TJ Holowaychuk) 3925 JavaScript Victoria, BC, Canada
#32 thomasdavis (Thomas Davis) 3919 JavaScript Brisbane, Australia
#33 pippinsplugins (Pippin Williamson) 3902 PHP Hutchinson, KS
#34 samdark (Alexander Makarov) 3876 PHP Russia
#35 c9s (Yo-An Lin) 3771 PHP
#36 josevalim (José Valim) 3675 Ruby Kraków, Poland
#37 kohsuke (Kohsuke Kawaguchi) 3636 Java San Jose, California
#38 kripken (Alon Zakai) 3544 JavaScript
#39 weaverryan (Ryan Weaver) 3467 PHP Nashville, TN
#40 obviousjim (James George) 3467 C Brooklyn, New York
#41 sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) 3451 Ruby Berlin
#42 Raynos (Raynos (Jake Verbaten)) 3305 JavaScript San Francisco
#43 evancz (Evan Czaplicki) 3293 Elm
#44 rafaelfranca (Rafael Mendonça França) 3267 Ruby São Paulo, Brazil
#45 mathiasbynens (Mathias Bynens) 3248 JavaScript Belgium
#46 roojs (Alan Knowles) 3226 JavaScript Hong Kong
#47 tokuhirom (Tokuhiro Matsuno) 3188 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#48 zenorocha (Zeno Rocha) 3182 JavaScript Brazil
#49 jordansissel (Jordan Sissel) 3139 Ruby Silicon Valley
#50 markstory (Mark Story) 3107 PHP Toronto, Ontario
#51 Ocramius (Marco Pivetta) 3091 PHP Germany
#52 addyosmani (Addy Osmani) 3087 JavaScript London, England
#53 FooBarWidget (Hongli Lai) 3071 Ruby Earth
#54 ekmett (Edward Kmett) 3048 Haskell Cambridge, MA
#55 creationix (Tim Caswell) 3005 JavaScript Red Lick, TX, USA
#56 alex (Alex Gaynor) 2982 Python San Francisco
#57 jeromeetienne (Jerome Etienne) 2969 JavaScript Paris, france
#58 mattn (mattn) 2881 VimL Osaka, Japan
#59 bbatsov (Bozhidar Batsov) 2879 Emacs Sofia, Bulgaria
#60 jamesward (James Ward) 2867 Java
#61 snoyberg (Michael Snoyman) 2867 Haskell Israel
#62 mythz (Demis Bellot) 2841 C New York
#63 ujihisa 2840 Ruby Vancouver, Canada
#64 indutny (Fedor Indutny) 2837 JavaScript Russia
#65 3rd-Eden (Arnout Kazemier) 2769 JavaScript Drachten, the Netherlands
#66 zcbenz (Cheng Zhao) 2769 JavaScript Beijing, China
#67 avelino (Thiago Avelino) 2745 Python Brazil - Sao Paulo / SP
#68 probablycorey (Corey Johnson) 2740 CoffeeScript San Francisco
#69 juliangruber (Julian Gruber) 2739 JavaScript Kaufbeuren, Germany
#70 maxogden (Max Ogden) 2712 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#71 ianstormtaylor (Ian Storm Taylor) 2641 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#72 julycoding (July) 2597 TeX 北京
#73 audreyt (唐鳳) 2580 Perl Taipei, Taiwan
#74 swannodette (David Nolen) 2573 Clojure New York
#75 TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich) 2546 JavaScript San Rafael, CA
#76 tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) 2529 Ruby Seattle
#77 benbalter (Ben Balter) 2492 JavaScript Washington, DC
#78 steipete (Peter Steinberger) 2484 Objective-C Vienna, Austria
#79 jspahrsummers (Justin Spahr-Summers) 2468 Objective-C San Francisco, CA
#80 mattt (Mattt Thompson) 2436 Ruby Portland, OR
#81 orta (Orta) 2428 Objective-C Manchester / NYC
#82 jwiegley (John Wiegley) 2420 Haskell Peoria, Illinois, USA
#83 willdurand (William Durand) 2410 PHP France
#84 Unknwon (无闻) 2406 Go Boston, MA
#85 JakeWharton (Jake Wharton) 2405 Java San Francisco, CA
#86 PaulKinlan (Paul Kinlan) 2377 JavaScript Liverpool, London, Mountain View (CA)
#87 ebidel (Eric Bidelman) 2367 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#88 ErisDS (Hannah Wolfe) 2364 JavaScript UK
#89 lsmith77 (Lukas Kahwe Smith) 2352 PHP Zurich, Switzerland
#90 r7kamura (Ryo Nakamura) 2334 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#91 Shougo (Shougo) 2305 VimL Japan
#92 rvagg (Rod Vagg) 2288 JavaScript South Coast NSW, Australia
#93 lepture (Hsiaoming Yang) 2269 JavaScript Everywhere, China
#94 passy (Pascal Hartig) 2269 JavaScript London, UK
#95 arunoda (Arunoda Susiripala) 2268 JavaScript Colombo, Sri Lanka
#96 karan (Karan Goel) 2251 Python Bay Area (Summer), Seattle
#97 yihui (Yihui Xie) 2250 R Ames, IA
#98 rstacruz (Rico Sta. Cruz) 2245 Ruby Manila, Philippines
#99 torvalds (Linus Torvalds) 2197 XSLT Portland, OR
#100 example42 (Alessandro Franceschi) 2196 Puppet Milan, Italy
#101 necolas (Nicolas Gallagher) 2174 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#102 mikejolley (Mike Jolley) 2169 PHP England, UK
#103 purcell (Steve Purcell) 2168 Emacs Chester, UK
#104 radar (Ryan Bigg) 2163 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#105 ayende (Ayende Rahien) 2142 C Israel
#106 ask (Ask Solem Hoel) 2132 Python London, UK
#107 andrewsmedina (Andrews Medina) 2131 Python Rio de Janeiro
#108 agentzh (Yichun Zhang) 2127 Perl San Francisco, CA, USA
#109 stof (Christophe Coevoet) 2124 PHP Paris
#110 hueniverse (Eran Hammer) 2106 JavaScript Los Gatos, CA
#111 paulcbetts (Paul Betts) 2086 C San Francisco
#112 freddix (Fryderyk Dziarmagowski) 2084 Shell
#113 contra (Eric Schoffstall) 2064 JavaScript Phoenix, AZ
#114 chrisdone (Chris Done) 2059 Haskell Italy
#115 jgm (John MacFarlane) 2057 Haskell Berkeley, CA
#116 drnic (Dr Nic Williams) 2056 Ruby Palo Alto, CA, USA
#117 sole (sole) 2043 JavaScript London
#118 fengmk2 (fengmk2) 2030 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#119 ingydotnet (Ingy döt Net) 2010 Perl Seattle
#120 SamSaffron (Sam) 2002 Ruby Sydney, Australia
#121 fsouza (Francisco Souza) 1990 Python Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
#122 ai (Andrey Sitnik) 1964 Ruby Saint Petersburg, Russia
#123 ednapiranha (Jen Fong-Adwent) 1959 JavaScript Portland, Oregon
#124 gka 1955 JavaScript Brooklyn
#125 hsbt (SHIBATA Hiroshi) 1952 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#126 yyx990803 (Evan You) 1944 JavaScript New York / Wuxi, China
#127 jaredhanson (Jared Hanson) 1932 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#128 titanous (Jonathan Rudenberg) 1930 Ruby
#129 magnars (Magnar Sveen) 1926 Emacs Norway
#130 mizzy (Gosuke Miyashita) 1926 Ruby Kanagawa, Japan
#131 leafo (leaf) 1904 MoonScript San Francisco
#132 ericholscher (Eric Holscher) 1882 Python Portland, Or
#133 eduardolundgren (Eduardo Lundgren) 1870 JavaScript Brazil
#134 pydanny (Daniel Greenfeld) 1833 Python Inland Empire, CA
#135 fool2fish (Zhouxuan Yang) 1832 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#136 mmalecki (Maciej Małecki) 1832 JavaScript Amsterdam, Netherlands
#137 vojtajina (Vojta Jina) 1819 JavaScript San Francisco Bay Area
#138 mhartl (Michael Hartl) 1814 Ruby Pasadena, CA
#139 dfm (Dan Foreman-Mackey) 1787 Python Brooklyn, NY
#140 isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter) 1778 JavaScript Oakland CA
#141 jlord (Jessica Lord) 1767 JavaScript Oakland, Ca
#142 jtauber (James Tauber) 1764 Python Burlington, MA
#143 btford (Brian Ford) 1764 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#144 rdegges (Randall Degges) 1743 Python Bay Area
#145 klen (Kirill Klenov) 1739 Python Russia, Moscow
#146 jezdez (Jannis Leidel) 1725 Python Berlin, Europe
#147 davidfowl (David Fowler) 1698 C Bellevue, WA
#148 samuelclay (Samuel Clay) 1686 JavaScript San Francisco
#149 michael (Michael Aufreiter) 1678 JavaScript Linz, Austria
#150 caitp (Caitlin Potter) 1671 JavaScript Toronto, Canada
#151 josh (Joshua Peek) 1649 Ruby Chicago, IL
#152 marijnh (Marijn Haverbeke) 1643 JavaScript Berlin
#153 roidrage (Mathias Meyer) 1637 Ruby Berlin, Germany
#154 josegonzalez (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) 1634 PHP New York, NY
#155 tpope (Tim Pope) 1631 VimL Brooklyn, NY
#156 mourner (Vladimir Agafonkin) 1621 JavaScript Kiev, Ukraine
#157 vhf (victor felder) 1608 JavaScript Fribourg (Switzerland)
#158 sebastianbergmann (Sebastian Bergmann) 1606 PHP Siegburg, Germany
#159 kraih (Sebastian Riedel) 1602 Perl Germany
#160 audreyr (Audrey Roy) 1600 Python Inland Empire, CA
#161 codegangsta (Jeremy Saenz) 1596 Go Sierra Madre CA
#162 azer (Azer Koçulu) 1584 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#163 paulmillr (Paul Miller) 1583 JavaScript
#164 mrdoob (Mr.doob) 1581 JavaScript Barcelona, Spain
#165 heynemann (Bernardo Heynemann) 1568 Python Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
#166 bfirsh (Ben Firshman) 1559 Python London, UK
#167 shiffman (Daniel Shiffman) 1557 Processing
#168 timoxley (Tim Oxley) 1554 JavaScript Brisbane
#169 HenrikJoreteg (Henrik Joreteg) 1552 JavaScript West Richland, WA
#170 dkubb (Dan Kubb) 1550 Ruby Mission, BC, Canada
#171 benoitc (Benoit Chesneau) 1530 Erlang Creil, France
#172 headius (Charles Oliver Nutter) 1522 Ruby
#173 jsuereth (Josh Suereth) 1518 Scala Pittsburgh, PA
#174 twada (Takuto Wada) 1510 JavaScript Tokyo, Japan
#175 weavejester (James Reeves) 1503 Clojure London, UK
#176 mrmrs (Adam Morse) 1499 CSS San Francisco
#177 connors (Connor Sears) 1498 CSS Palo Alto
#178 kana (Kana Natsuno) 1495 VimL Tokyo, Japan
#179 rpflorence (Ryan Florence) 1494 JavaScript Salt Lake City, UT
#180 Haacked (Phil Haack) 1462 C Bellevue, WA
#181 photonstorm (Richard Davey) 1453 JavaScript UK
#182 turingou (Guo Yu) 1453 JavaScript Peking, Mainland China
#183 darkwing (David Walsh) 1446 JavaScript Madison, Wisconsin, United States
#184 xinyu198736 (芋头) 1434 JavaScript china hangzhou 西湖区
#185 gfx (FUJI Goro) 1427 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#186 gitster (Junio C Hamano) 1425 CSS Mountain View, CA
#187 faux123 (Paul Reioux) 1423 C Los Angeles
#188 soyjavi (Javi Jiménez) 1412 CoffeeScript Bilbao, ES
#189 mde (Matthew Eernisse) 1402 JavaScript San Francisco, California, USA
#190 steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik) 1401 Ruby Brooklyn
#191 jakevdp (Jake Vanderplas) 1387 Python Seattle WA
#192 tommy351 (SkyArrow) 1387 JavaScript Taipei
#193 shama (Kyle Robinson Young) 1387 JavaScript Napa, CA
#194 MatthewMueller (Matthew Mueller) 1384 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#195 fogus (Fogus) 1364 Clojure DC
#196 cyanogen (Steve Kondik) 1364 Shell Seattle, WA
#197 cjohansen (Christian Johansen) 1362 JavaScript Oslo
#198 dustin (Dustin Sallings) 1351 Go Santa Clara, CA
#199 Cocoanetics (Oliver Drobnik) 1350 Objective-C Weistrach, Austria
#200 ricardoquesada (Ricardo Quesada) 1348 C San Francisco, CA. USA
#201 philsturgeon (Phil Sturgeon) 1345 PHP Bristol & Brooklyn
#202 mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) 1335 Python United Kingdom / Austria
#203 migurski 1324 Python
#204 matz (Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto) 1320 Matsue, Japan
#205 Constellation (Yusuke Suzuki) 1313 JavaScript Yokohama, Japan
#206 yuvipanda (Yuvi Panda) 1310 Python Chennai
#207 robhudson (Rob Hudson) 1302 Python Eugene, Oregon
#208 antirez (Salvatore Sanfilippo) 1301 C Campobello di Licata, Sicily, Italy
#209 guille (Guillermo Rauch) 1298 JavaScript SF
#210 mbostock (Mike Bostock) 1296 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#211 alloy (Eloy Durán) 1291 Ruby Amsterdam, the Netherlands
#212 bradfitz (Brad Fitzpatrick) 1275 Go San Francisco, CA
#213 scribu (Cristi Burcă) 1266 PHP Cluj-Napoca, Romania
#214 DataTables (Allan Jardine) 1260 JavaScript
#215 andrew (Andrew Nesbitt) 1256 JavaScript Bath, UK
#216 aheckmann (Aaron Heckmann) 1249 JavaScript Santa Clara, CA
#217 yinwang0 (Yin Wang) 1249 CSS
#218 gnuwilliam (William Oliveira) 1249 JavaScript Brazil
#219 romaonthego (Roman Efimov) 1241 Ruby San Francisco Bay Area
#220 aslakhellesoy (Aslak Hellesøy) 1239 Ruby London, UK
#221 phalcon (Phalcon) 1234 PHP
#222 kangax (Juriy Zaytsev) 1230 JavaScript New York
#223 sorah (Shota Fukumori) 1229 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#224 tonymorris (Tony Morris) 1209 Haskell Brisbane
#225 charliesome (Charlie Somerville) 1201 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#226 domenic (Domenic Denicola) 1200 JavaScript New York, NY
#227 davecheney (Dave Cheney) 1200 Go Sydney, Australia
#228 swankjesse (Jesse Wilson) 1193 Java Waterloo, Canada
#229 defunctzombie (Roman Shtylman) 1193 JavaScript NYC
#230 schneems (Richard Schneeman) 1192 Ruby Austin, Tx
#231 Seldaek (Jordi Boggiano) 1192 PHP Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
#232 amatsuda (Akira Matsuda) 1184 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#233 karmi (Karel Minarik) 1178 Ruby Prague, Czech Republic
#234 nzakas (Nicholas C. Zakas) 1172 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#235 ShawnMcCool (Shawn McCool) 1170 PHP Utrecht, Netherlands
#236 rwaldron (Rick Waldron) 1164 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#237 miguelgrinberg (Miguel Grinberg) 1157 Python Portland, Oregon
#238 evilsocket (Simone Margaritelli) 1156 C Rome, Italy
#239 jedi4ever (Patrick Debois) 1154 Ruby Belgium
#240 n1k0 (Nicolas Perriault) 1154 JavaScript Montpellier, France
#241 sandal (Gregory Brown) 1153 Ruby New Haven, CT
#242 petehunt (Pete Hunt) 1146 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#243 toastdriven (Daniel Lindsley) 1143 Python Lawrence, KS
#244 AdamBien (Adam Bien) 1143 Java Planet Java
#245 bryanveloso (Bryan Veloso) 1142 Python Los Angeles, CA
#246 mgcrea (Olivier Louvignes) 1140 JavaScript Paris, France
#247 chjj (Christopher Jeffrey) 1140 JavaScript MN
#248 nacin (Andrew Nacin) 1136 JavaScript Washington, D.C.
#249 rakyll (Burcu Dogan) 1126 Go San Francisco, CA
#250 tbranyen (Tim Branyen) 1125 JavaScript Boston, MA
#251 koush (Koushik Dutta) 1119 Shell Seattle, WA
#252 apotonick (Nick Sutterer) 1113 Ruby Byron Bay, Australia
#253 arturoc (arturo) 1111 C
#254 olivergierke (Oliver Gierke) 1099 Java Dresden, Germany
#255 jrburke (James Burke) 1096 JavaScript
#256 phuslu (Phus Lu) 1096 Python China

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@santhoshtr
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There is something wrong in this. I have 1286 contributions in this period, but does not show up in this list.

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sl commented Jul 2, 2014

Santhoshtr, as stated in the header at the top of the file, because of the limitations on Github's search queries, only users with a certain amount of followers (in this case greater than 62) are considered for inclusion in the list. You can see the limitation being set in the search query.

githubUsers
 .filter((user) -> user.followers > 62)
  .sortBy('contributions')
  .slice(0, 256)

@sylvia43
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Can you update this?

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