Finding active GitHub forks from the command line

I maintain SumatraPDF on GitHub. People fork it and make their own changes. I want to know which forks are active and what they’re working on. GitHub has a Network tab for this. I find it lousy. It’s hard to see active forks at a glance. Panning and zooming the UI is slow and fiddly. I just want a sorted list of forks with actual changes. So I wrote a small script: github-active-forks.ts. What it does It uses the GitHub API to find forks that have ahead commits (changes not in upstream) from the last year. For each active branch it prints: a link to the branch on GitHub short sha, author, relative date, first line of commit message Forks are sorted by most recent activity, oldest first. Commits within a branch are oldest first. It compares each fork branch against the matching upstream branch (e.g. rel3.6working vs rel3.6working), not always master. That way you only see commits unique to the fork. How to run it Download the script: curl -O…