All Awesome Lists

URL: https://github.com/topics/awesome
Category: Meta-directories
Brand: GitHub

Overview

All Awesome Lists is GitHub’s topic index page for repositories tagged with the awesome topic. It functions as a central directory of community-curated “awesome lists” that catalog high-quality resources across many domains (e.g., programming languages, tools, books, and more).

An awesome list is a community-curated list of “awesome” things on a specific topic. The main reference list of awesome lists is maintained at the sindresorhus/awesome repository.

Features

• Central directory of awesome lists

  • Lists all public GitHub repositories tagged with the awesome topic.
  • Acts as an entry point to thousands of independently maintained awesome lists.

• Large and diverse coverage

  • Contains thousands of repositories (e.g., 8,979 public repositories matching the topic in the provided snapshot).
  • Includes lists on a wide range of subjects, from CLI applications to fantasy books, programming ecosystems, tools, frameworks, and more.

• Language-based filtering

  • Filter awesome-list repositories by primary language, including (example snapshot):
    • All languages
    • Python
    • JavaScript
    • HTML
    • TypeScript
    • Shell
    • Go
    • Lua
    • CSS
    • Java
    • Jupyter Notebook

• Sorting and discovery tools

  • Sort repositories by:
    • Most stars
    • Fewest stars
    • Most forks
    • Fewest forks
    • Recently updated
    • Least recently updated

• Access to flagship awesome lists

  • Highlights popular awesome lists such as:
    • sindresorhus/awesome – the main curated list of awesome lists across topics.
    • vinta/awesome-python – curated list of Python frameworks, libraries, software, and resources.
    • awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted – list of free software network services and web applications suitable for self-hosting.

• Topic and tag integration

  • Repositories are enriched with related topics/tags (e.g., lists, resources, python, selfhosted, cloud, privacy), improving navigation and discovery.

• GitHub-native functionality

  • Leverages standard GitHub repository features for each awesome list: stars, forks, issues, pull requests, and updates.
  • Integrates with GitHub search, including advanced syntax support via GitHub’s search syntax.

Use Cases

• Find curated resource lists for a specific technology, domain, or interest.
• Explore highly starred community lists to quickly identify trusted resources.
• Discover niche or emerging topics through the awesome topic tag.
• Use as a meta-directory to other awesome-list aggregators (e.g., sindresorhus/awesome).

Pricing

• Access to the All Awesome Lists topic index and browsing of public repositories is free.
• No specific pricing tiers are associated with this topic page itself (standard GitHub account and usage terms apply).