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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 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:35:24 GMT till Mon, 12 Aug 2013 10:35:24 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 > 188)
  .sortBy('contributions')
  .slice(0, 256)

Made with data mining of GitHub.com (raw data, script) by @paulmillr with contribs of @lifesinger. Updated every sunday.

# Username Contributions Language Location
#1 fabpot (Fabien Potencier) 7033 PHP Paris, France
#2 weierophinney (Matthew Weier O'Phinney) 6725 PHP Sioux Falls, SD, USA
#3 visionmedia (TJ Holowaychuk) 6630 JavaScript Victoria, BC, Canada
#4 c9s (Pedro) 6600 Perl Taiwan
#5 tmcw (Tom MacWright) 5301 JavaScript Washington, DC
#6 fsouza (Francisco Souza) 5199 Python Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
#7 taylorotwell (Taylor Otwell) 5196 PHP Arkansas
#8 substack (James Halliday) 5178 JavaScript Oakland, California, USA
#9 dominictarr (Dominic Tarr) 4999 JavaScript New Zealand
#10 ekmett (Edward Kmett) 4888 Haskell Cambridge, MA
#11 tokuhirom (Tokuhiro Matsuno) 4694 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#12 michaelklishin (Michael Klishin) 4480 Ruby
#13 zenorocha (Zeno Rocha) 3994 JavaScript Brazil
#14 kennethreitz (Kenneth Reitz) 3993 Python Winchester, VA
#15 kripken (Alon Zakai) 3917 JavaScript
#16 dcramer (David Cramer) 3914 Python San Francisco, CA
#17 lepture (Hsiaoming Yang) 3904 Python Hangzhou, China
#18 Raynos (Raynos) 3896 JavaScript San Francisco
#19 gugod (Kang-min Liu) 3836 Perl Amsterdam, Netherlands
#20 pippinsplugins (Pippin Williamson) 3764 PHP Lawrence, KS
#21 sferik (Erik Michaels-Ober) 3737 Ruby Berlin and San Francisco
#22 springmeyer (Dane Springmeyer) 3675 C Winthrop, WA
#23 jspahrsummers (Justin Spahr-Summers) 3589 Objective-C Seattle, WA
#24 ornicar (Thibault Duplessis) 3537 PHP France
#25 radar (Ryan Bigg) 3513 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#26 Shougo (Shougo) 3491 VimL Japan
#27 lifesinger (lifesinger) 3387 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#28 fogus (Fogus) 3339 Clojure DC
#29 balupton (Benjamin Arthur Lupton) 3321 JavaScript Sydney, Australia
#30 postmodern (Postmodern) 3309 Ruby
#31 mitchellh (Mitchell Hashimoto) 3170 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#32 josevalim (José Valim) 3097 Ruby Kraków, Poland
#33 jordansissel (Jordan Sissel) 3095 Ruby Silicon Valley
#34 drnic (Dr Nic Williams) 3054 Ruby Palo Alto, CA, USA
#35 jeromeetienne (Jerome Etienne) 3030 JavaScript Paris, france
#36 alex (Alex Gaynor) 3029 Python San Francisco
#37 andrewsmedina (Andrews Medina) 3010 Python Rio de Janeiro
#38 scribu (Cristi Burcă) 3007 PHP Cluj-Napoca, Romania
#39 hueniverse (Eran Hammer) 2994 JavaScript Los Gatos, CA
#40 jtimberman (Joshua Timberman) 2994 Ruby Denver, CO
#41 davglass (Dav Glass) 2993 JavaScript Marion, IL
#42 ednapiranha (Jen Fong-Adwent) 2973 JavaScript Toronto
#43 benbalter (Ben Balter) 2919 JavaScript Washington, DC
#44 maxogden (Max Ogden) 2894 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#45 lsmith77 (Lukas Kahwe Smith) 2806 PHP Zurich, Switzerland
#46 kohsuke (Kohsuke Kawaguchi) 2762 Java San Jose, California
#47 sindresorhus (Sindre Sorhus) 2756 JavaScript Norway
#48 isaacs (Isaac Z. Schlueter) 2753 JavaScript Oakland CA
#49 dg (David Grudl) 2719 PHP
#50 ujihisa 2705 Ruby Vancouver, Canada
#51 paulmillr (Paul Miller) 2704 JavaScript Worldwide
#52 kytrinyx (Katrina Owen) 2648 Ruby Denver, Colorado
#53 gka 2642 Python Germany
#54 aheckmann (Aaron Heckmann) 2635 JavaScript San Jose, CA
#55 steveklabnik (Steve Klabnik) 2627 Ruby Santa Monica, CA
#56 rstacruz (Rico Sta. Cruz) 2625 Ruby Manila, Philippines
#57 yihui (Yihui Xie) 2619 R Ames, IA
#58 samuelclay (Samuel Clay) 2612 JavaScript San Francisco
#59 mattn (mattn) 2594 VimL Osaka, Japan
#60 svenfuchs (Sven Fuchs) 2587 Ruby Germany/Berlin
#61 viatropos (Lance Pollard) 2561 JavaScript San Francisco
#62 ayende (Ayende Rahien) 2546 C Israel
#63 JakeWharton (Jake Wharton) 2543 Java San Francisco, CA
#64 igorw (Igor Wiedler) 2524 PHP Winterthur, Zürich, Switzerland
#65 willdurand (William Durand) 2486 PHP France
#66 rafaelfranca (Rafael Mendonça França) 2478 Ruby São Paulo, Brazil
#67 snoyberg (Michael Snoyman) 2470 Haskell Israel
#68 Ocramius (Marco Pivetta) 2469 PHP Germany
#69 pydanny (Daniel Greenfeld) 2447 Python Los Angeles, CA
#70 bergie (Henri Bergius) 2432 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#71 dustin (Dustin Sallings) 2427 Go Santa Clara, CA
#72 torvalds (Linus Torvalds) 2307 C Portland, OR
#73 Gozala (Irakli Gozalishvili) 2293 JavaScript San Francisco, USA
#74 domenic (Domenic Denicola) 2279 JavaScript New York, NY
#75 mattt (Mattt Thompson) 2259 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#76 headius (Charles Oliver Nutter) 2250 Ruby
#77 RubyLouvre (司徒正美) 2242 JavaScript China
#78 stephenmcd (Stephen McDonald) 2223 Python Sydney Australia
#79 xpaulbettsx (Paul Betts) 2208 C San Francisco, CA
#80 steipete (Peter Steinberger) 2185 Objective-C Vienna, Austria
#81 davidfowl (David Fowler) 2180 C Bellevue, WA
#82 jaredhanson (Jared Hanson) 2178 JavaScript Oakland, CA
#83 kevinsawicki (Kevin Sawicki) 2157 JavaScript Redwood City, CA
#84 scottgonzalez (Scott González) 2156 JavaScript York, PA
#85 beberlei (Benjamin Eberlei) 2136 PHP Germany
#86 purcell (Steve Purcell) 2130 Emacs Chester, UK
#87 bbatsov (Bozhidar Batsov) 2124 Emacs Sofia, Bulgaria
#88 mdo (Mark Otto) 2114 CSS San Francisco, CA
#89 durran (Durran Jordan) 2112 Ruby Berlin, Deutschland
#90 miyagawa (Tatsuhiko Miyagawa) 2100 Perl San Francisco, CA
#91 mbostock (Mike Bostock) 2085 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#92 marijnh (Marijn Haverbeke) 2075 JavaScript Berlin
#93 Seldaek (Jordi Boggiano) 2073 PHP Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
#94 hadley (hadley wickham) 2059 R Houston, TX
#95 gitster (Junio C Hamano) 2051 Perl Mountain View, CA
#96 mythz (Demis Bellot) 2046 JavaScript New York
#97 adamv (Adam Vandenberg) 2024 Python Issaquah, WA
#98 dkubb (Dan Kubb) 2023 Ruby Mission, BC, Canada
#99 qiangxue (Qiang Xue) 2004 PHP Virginia, U.S.A.
#100 faux123 (Paul Reioux) 1988 Shell Los Angeles
#101 markstory (Mark Story) 1982 PHP Toronto, Ontario
#102 jwiegley (John Wiegley) 1972 Emacs Peoria, Illinois, USA
#103 sorbits (Allan Odgaard) 1967 Ruby Denmark
#104 TooTallNate (Nathan Rajlich) 1967 JavaScript San Rafael, CA
#105 agentzh (Yichun Zhang) 1952 Perl San Francisco, CA, USA
#106 indutny (Fedor Indutny) 1940 JavaScript Russia
#107 nddrylliog (Amos Wenger) 1925 ooc Helvetia
#108 drogus (Piotr Sarnacki) 1914 Ruby Warsaw
#109 koush (Koushik Dutta) 1913 Shell Seattle, WA
#110 ask (Ask Solem Hoel) 1893 Python London, UK
#111 example42 (Alessandro Franceschi) 1887 Puppet Milan, Italy
#112 jdalton (John-David Dalton) 1852 JavaScript http://twitter.com/jdalton
#113 addyosmani (Addy Osmani) 1841 JavaScript London, England
#114 mourner (Vladimir Agafonkin) 1818 JavaScript Kiev, Ukraine
#115 carljm (Carl Meyer) 1818 Python Rapid City, SD
#116 n1k0 (Nicolas Perriault) 1804 JavaScript Montpellier, France
#117 phalcon (Phalcon) 1794 PHP
#118 gfx (Fuji, Goro) 1786 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#119 ericam (Eric Meyer) 1771 Ruby Denver, CO
#120 Cocoanetics (Oliver Drobnik) 1759 Objective-C Weistrach, Austria
#121 rjbs (Ricardo Signes) 1736 Perl Bethlehem, PA, USA
#122 jcoglan (James Coglan) 1726 Ruby London, UK
#123 andrew (Andrew Nesbitt) 1719 Ruby Bath, UK
#124 creationix (Tim Caswell) 1717 JavaScript Red Lick, TX, USA
#125 Marak 1715 JavaScript San Francisco, California
#126 remy (Remy Sharp) 1704 JavaScript Brighton, UK
#127 carlosantoniodasilva (Carlos Antonio da Silva) 1699 Ruby Rio do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brasil
#128 mikejolley (Mike Jolley) 1686 PHP England, UK
#129 r7kamura (r7kamura) 1673 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#130 soyjavi (Javi Jiménez) 1668 CoffeeScript Bilbao, ES
#131 jashkenas (Jeremy Ashkenas) 1660 Ruby On the Road
#132 graemerocher 1656 Java
#133 benoitc (Benoit Chesneau) 1648 Python Creil, France
#134 mrdoob (Mr.doob) 1641 JavaScript Barcelona, Spain
#135 rkh (Konstantin Haase) 1631 Ruby Berlin
#136 shiffman (Daniel Shiffman) 1623 Java
#137 jamesward (James Ward) 1598 Java
#138 ai (Andrey Sitnik) 1585 Ruby Saint Petersburg, Russia
#139 aslakhellesoy (Aslak Hellesøy) 1572 Ruby London, UK
#140 hsbt (SHIBATA Hiroshi) 1562 Ruby Japan
#141 fengmk2 (fengmk2) 1557 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#142 mizzy (Gosuke Miyashita) 1555 Ruby Kanagawa, Japan
#143 desandro (David DeSandro) 1545 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#144 jcasimir (Jeff Casimir) 1533 Ruby Washington, DC
#145 JacksonTian (Jackson Tian) 1526 JavaScript Hangzhou, China
#146 vojtajina (Vojta Jina) 1522 JavaScript San Francisco Bay Area
#147 obviousjim (James George) 1522 C Brooklyn, New York
#148 kraih (Sebastian Riedel) 1509 Perl Germany
#149 tenderlove (Aaron Patterson) 1508 Ruby Seattle
#150 magnars (Magnar Sveen) 1499 Emacs Norway
#151 charliesome (Charlie Somerville) 1495 Ruby Melbourne, Australia
#152 weaverryan (Ryan Weaver) 1492 PHP Nashville, TN
#153 jmettraux (John Mettraux) 1479 Ruby Hiroshima
#154 3rd-Eden (Arnout Kazemier) 1466 JavaScript Drachten, the Netherlands
#155 thomasdavis (Thomas Davis) 1451 JavaScript Brisbane, Australia
#156 jedi4ever (Patrick Debois) 1446 Ruby Belgium
#157 yrashk (Yurii Rashkovskii) 1437 Erlang Vancouver, BC, Canada
#158 azer (Azer Koçulu) 1437 JavaScript Oakland, CA & Kalkan, TR
#159 jgm (John MacFarlane) 1430 Haskell Berkeley, CA
#160 jrburke (James Burke) 1427 JavaScript
#161 solnic (Piotr Solnica) 1418 Ruby Poland, Kraków
#162 kana (Kana Natsuno) 1410 VimL Tokyo, Japan
#163 SamSaffron (Sam) 1404 Ruby Sydney, Australia
#164 ricardoquesada (Ricardo Quesada) 1402 C San Francisco, CA. USA
#165 derickbailey (Derick Bailey) 1399 JavaScript Waco, TX
#166 audreyt (唐鳳) 1396 Perl Taipei, Taiwan
#167 necolas (Nicolas Gallagher) 1388 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#168 indexzero (Charlie Robbins) 1385 JavaScript NYC
#169 tomas (Tomás Pollak) 1374 JavaScript Santiago, Chile
#170 Constellation (Yusuke Suzuki) 1372 JavaScript Yokohama, Japan
#171 felixge (Felix Geisendörfer) 1365 JavaScript Berlin, Germany
#172 joshaber (Josh Abernathy) 1359 Objective-C Yellow Springs, OH
#173 jtauber (James Tauber) 1351 Python Burlington, MA
#174 feross (Feross Aboukhadijeh) 1350 JavaScript Stanford, CA
#175 straup (Aaron Straup Cope) 1348 Python New York City
#176 yuvipanda (Yuvi Panda) 1345 Python Chennai
#177 everzet (Konstantin Kudryashov) 1340 PHP London, UK
#178 daleharvey (Dale Harvey) 1334 JavaScript Edinburgh, Scotland
#179 bitprophet (Jeff Forcier) 1330 Python Lafayette, CA
#180 kaepora (Nadim Kobeissi) 1330 JavaScript Montréal, QC
#181 jimweirich (Jim Weirich) 1306 Ruby Cincinnati
#182 johnmyleswhite (John Myles White) 1297 Julia Brooklyn, NY
#183 tpope (Tim Pope) 1297 VimL Brooklyn, NY
#184 jnunemaker (John Nunemaker) 1294 Ruby South Bend, IN, USA
#185 derickr (Derick Rethans) 1293 PHP London, England
#186 harrah (Mark Harrah) 1279 Scala Boston, MA
#187 jmathai (Jaisen Mathai) 1278 PHP San Francisco / Sunnyvale, CA USA
#188 tarcieri (Tony Arcieri) 1274 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#189 FooBarWidget (Hongli Lai) 1264 Ruby Earth
#190 mde (Matthew Eernisse) 1255 JavaScript San Francisco, California, USA
#191 rwldrn (Rick Waldron) 1254 JavaScript Brooklyn, NY
#192 soffes (Sam Soffes) 1249 Ruby San Francisco
#193 ProLoser (Dean Sofer) 1248 PHP San Francisco
#194 blakewatters (Blake Watters) 1247 Ruby New York City, NY
#195 technomancy (Phil Hagelberg) 1247 Clojure Seattle, WA, USA
#196 josegonzalez (Jose Diaz-Gonzalez) 1244 PHP New York, NY
#197 ebidel (Eric Bidelman) 1242 JavaScript San Francisco, CA
#198 seancribbs (Sean Cribbs) 1240 Ruby DeKalb, IL
#199 indirect (André Arko) 1230 Ruby San Francisco
#200 bnoordhuis (Ben Noordhuis) 1229 C Gouda, the Netherlands
#201 lloyd (Lloyd Hilaiel) 1225 JavaScript Denver, Colorado
#202 ianstormtaylor (Ian Storm Taylor) 1220 JavaScript Cambridge, MA
#203 Raynes (Anthony Grimes) 1219 Clojure Los Angeles, CA
#204 sebastianbergmann (Sebastian Bergmann) 1219 PHP Siegburg, Germany
#205 alloy (Eloy Durán) 1215 Ruby Amsterdam, the Netherlands
#206 chjj (Christopher Jeffrey) 1206 JavaScript MN
#207 pengwynn (Wynn Netherland) 1205 Ruby TX
#208 josh (Joshua Peek) 1204 Ruby Chicago, IL
#209 jesusabdullah (Joshua Holbrook) 1201 JavaScript Utah
#210 arturoc (arturo) 1201 C
#211 kriskowal (Kris Kowal) 1199 JavaScript Pasadena, CA, USA
#212 rdegges (Randall Degges) 1181 Python Bakersfield
#213 jezdez (Jannis Leidel) 1179 Python Berlin, Germany
#214 marcuswestin (Marcus Westin) 1174 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#215 parndt (Philip Arndt) 1173 Ruby Christchurch, New Zealand
#216 lestrrat (lestrrat) 1168 Perl Tokyo, Japan
#217 robashton (Rob "Hurricane" Ashton) 1167 JavaScript London
#218 csswizardry (Harry Roberts) 1165 Shell Leeds, UK
#219 mathiasbynens (Mathias Bynens) 1160 JavaScript Belgium
#220 levey (朱建刚) 1158 Objective-C Hangzhou, China
#221 matz (Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto) 1155 Matsue, Japan
#222 astaxie (astaxie) 1153 Go shanghai china
#223 ericholscher (Eric Holscher) 1150 Python Portland, Or
#224 pgte (Pedro Teixeira) 1144 JavaScript Portugal
#225 laruence (Xinchen Hui) 1137 PHP China
#226 flyerhzm (Richard Huang) 1137 Ruby Shanghai, China
#227 mxcl (Max Howell) 1135 C Chicago, IL
#228 dennisreimann (Dennis Reimann) 1111 Ruby Bremen, Germany
#229 happypeter (Peter Wang) 1109 Ruby Beijing China
#230 mmcgrana (Mark McGranaghan) 1108 Clojure San Francisco, CA
#231 tyru (tyru) 1107 VimL
#232 sergeche (Sergey Chikuyonok) 1107 JavaScript Moscow, Russia
#233 yinwang0 (Yin Wang) 1106 Scheme San Francisco
#234 zenspider (Ryan Davis) 1102 Ruby Seattle, WA
#235 btford (Brian Ford) 1100 JavaScript Mountain View, CA
#236 roidrage (Mathias Meyer) 1083 Ruby Berlin, Germany
#237 kylemcdonald (Kyle McDonald) 1079 C Brooklyn, New York
#238 darwin (Antonin Hildebrand) 1078 JavaScript Prague, Czech Republic
#239 mitsuhiko (Armin Ronacher) 1075 Python United Kingdom / Austria
#240 cpw 1071 Java
#241 kentaro (Kentaro Kuribayashi) 1071 Ruby Tokyo, Japan
#242 ingydotnet (Ingy döt Net) 1067 Perl Seattle
#243 glennblock (Glenn Block) 1063 JavaScript
#244 loopj (James Smith) 1060 Ruby San Francisco, CA
#245 codahale (Coda Hale) 1056 Ruby Berkeley, CA
#246 nacin (Andrew Nacin) 1040 JavaScript Washington, D.C.
#247 wbond (Will Bond) 1034 Python Newbury, MA
#248 michael (Michael Aufreiter) 1033 JavaScript Linz, Austria
#249 jzaefferer (Jörn Zaefferer) 1029 JavaScript Cologne, Germany
#250 schmittjoh (Johannes) 1026 PHP
#251 darkwing (David Walsh) 1026 JavaScript Madison, Wisconsin, United States
#252 sjl (Steve Losh) 1022 Python Rochester, NY
#253 saberma (Saber) 1020 Ruby ShenZhen China
#254 schneems (Richard Schneeman) 1016 Ruby Austin, Tx
#255 phuslu (Phus Lu) 1009 Python Hangzhou, China
#256 geemus (Wesley Beary) 1007 Ruby Iowa City, IA

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