I was playing with GitHub Archive recently. Out of curiosity I ran this query:
SELECT COUNT(repository_owner) as totalStars, repository_owner
FROM [githubarchive:github.timeline]
WHERE type = 'WatchEvent'
GROUP BY repository_owner
ORDER BY totalStars DESC
LIMIT 1000This query counts total number of WatchEvent given to a single repository owner. Keep in mind, this dataset does not give 100% accurate results. E.g. some repositories were attacked by "star-giving" bots (StarBots?).
Here is the list of top 1,000 users:
totalStars, repository_owner 151485, facebook 145961, twitter 88306, google 81434, visionmedia 77521, mozilla 76144, github 64604, square 63796, angular 60586, jquery 48676, h5bp 48286, addyosmani 43919, kennethreitz 43895, thoughtbot 42739, substack 41985, mbostock 41844, hakimel 40770, LearnBoost 40056, sindresorhus 39989, rails 39364, joyent 39085, adobe 38996, HubSpot 38004, apache 37348, FortAwesome 36580, twbs 32836, vhf 32174, zurb 31377, mattt 31218, meteor 31082, blueimp 29332, JakeWharton 28864, tpope 27057, documentcloud 27015, mitsuhiko 26668, necolas 26358, defunkt 24922, jashkenas 24756, Netflix 24295, angular-ui 23996, airbnb 23468, bartaz 23022, nicklockwood 22918, mojombo 22438, filamentgroup 22435, dotcloud 22350, driftyco 22131, laravel 22107, elasticsearch 22084, rstacruz 21738, AFNetworking 21137, django 21004, daneden 20930, mrdoob 20588, emberjs 20374, yeoman 20339, harvesthq 20079, etsy 20040, robbyrussell 19751, torvalds 19749, atom 19732, mathiasbynens 19687, desandro 19587, sstephenson 19478, gitlabhq 19042, scottjehl 19029, bbatsov 18931, resume 18917, rogerwang 18808, codrops 18579, Shopify 18439, progrium 17944, caolan 17859, segmentio 17728, mongodb 17682, gruntjs 17643, mitchellh 17395, maccman 16953, ivaynberg 16424, ariya 16340, intridea 16029, plataformatec 15864, madrobby 15785, antirez 15714, textmate 15696, creationix 15637, mxcl 15317, ajaxorg 15168, cowboy 15125, yui 14977, nvie 14900, clojure 14634, TryGhost 14489, cocos2d 14370, ccampbell 14344, mapbox 14295, maxogden 14095, cloudhead 14000, Automattic 13995, isaacs 13875, Modernizr 13865, usablica 13794, alibaba 13706, flatiron 13687, linkedin 13589, phonegap 13576, nodejitsu 13560, Rohfosho 13499, ryanb 13488, Prinzhorn 13415, discourse 13364, kripken 13362, jrburke 13358, paulirish 13234, chrisbanes 13187, felixge 13141, EightMedia 13104, chriskempson 13104, nnnick 13072, remy 13056, yahoo 13023, robbiehanson 12948, CyanogenMod 12934, dypsilon 12900, davatron5000 12850, symfony 12823, Polymer 12795, fabpot 12735, sahat 12581, xing 12469, nathanmarz 12212, pivotal 12133, csswizardry 12063, jakiestfu 11978, SpringSource 11837, peachananr 11798, samvermette 11782, heroku 11734, astaxie 11715, ansible 11660, balderdashy 11603, moment 11534, puppetlabs 11514, php 11500, neovim 11454, yiisoft 11305, getify 11286, wycats 11256, jaredhanson 11239, mperham 11203, GoogleCloudPlatform 10937, marijnh 10910, mikeal 10797, ftlabs 10781, Lokaltog 10769, spring-projects 10693, kriskowal 10670, mono 10644, chjj 10589, rs 10550, codeguy 10548, igrigorik 10532, RailsApps 10523, SamyPesse 10522, GitbookIO 10519, papers-we-love 10464, darcyclarke 10447, openstack 10442, tiimgreen 10361, aFarkas 10273, opscode 10226, scrooloose 10210, LeaVerou 10198, sferik 10161, romaonthego 10145, designmodo 10142, basho 10140, steipete 10132, timrwood 10112, ccoenraets 10057, fzaninotto 10039, dropbox 10009, libgit2 9966, harthur 9891, douglascrockford 9882, rwldrn 9835, altercation 9817, imathis 9772, mdo 9740, kenwheeler 9716, EllisLab 9581, docker 9574, ankane 9541, jkbr 9510, coreos 9504, mishoo 9470, component 9459, gulpjs 9450, mattn 9426, HPNeo 9325, mrmrs 9324, BradLarson 9315, Homebrew 9278, NYTimes 9268, WickyNilliams 9264, reddit 9218, zenorocha 9205, CocoaPods 9188, CreateJS 9179, IanLunn 9178, VeriteCo 9172, interagent 9085, stripe 9065, Microsoft 9048, ValveSoftware 8979, dominictarr 8940, bayandin 8901, bestiejs 8893, cantino 8890, hashicorp 8875, jfeinstein10 8799, codegangsta 8799, jenkinsci 8794, scrapy 8750, aws 8721, ai 8716, git 8690, spf13 8683, zendframework 8676, bitly 8670, viljamis 8670, daimajia 8644, wagerfield 8605, guard 8589, jnicklas 8584, paypal 8567, numbbbbb 8552, t4t5 8527, phalcon 8524, senchalabs 8513, justjavac 8431, technomancy 8421, Magmoz 8401, alvarotrigo 8397, GoogleChrome 8393, honcheng 8323, clowwindy 8315, rethinkdb 8313, vim-scripts 8308, loopj 8306, Kicksend 8234, Famous 8231, 37signals 8228, koush 8190, vinta 8161, briangonzalez 8112, btford 8051, xdissent 8043, toddmotto 8023, imakewebthings 7981, enyo 7966, jverkoey 7960, andris9 7921, TooTallNate 7919, photonstorm 7902, Shougo 7894, gmarik 7855, shu223 7850, playframework 7837, daylerees 7833, RestKit 7829, adobe-webplatform 7768, jgm 7761, sebastianbergmann 7750, tbranyen 7736, commonsguy 7731, kahun 7726, goagent 7681, chriso 7674, tobiasahlin 7672, shichuan 7654, rg3 7602, guillaumepotier 7592, libgdx 7570, Semantic-Org 7543, jmcunningham 7543, holman 7543, fgnass 7538, Leaflet 7534, nostra13 7495, jmechner 7488, guardian 7481, firebase 7472, marmelab 7440, soffes 7438, capistrano 7436, charliesome 7432, soulwire 7429, cubiq 7428, diaspora 7418, bower 7404, adafruit 7330, id-Software 7312, composer 7254, jgilfelt 7232, koajs 7196, jakubroztocil 7194, swannodette 7188, johnpolacek 7161, sofish 7143, fullstackio 7142, rvagg 7114, JuliaLang 7112, JetBrains 7100, janl 7082, ddollar 7075, gabrielecirulli 7063, wordnik 7036, spotify 7024, thomaspark 7022, joewalnes 7015, jordansissel 7006, LightTable 7003, breach 6996, DmitryBaranovskiy 6993, julianshapiro 6976, cakephp 6973, xamarin 6963, KnpLabs 6961, saltstack 6957, okfn 6949, WhisperSystems 6946, aterrien 6944, eternicode 6944, ruby 6930, CamDavidsonPilon 6924, carhartl 6923, stackforge 6900, Valloric 6854, WordPress 6844, codeparty 6841, getsentry 6836, quarnster 6825, apenwarr 6813, php-fig 6803, ipython 6799, FezVrasta 6743, keithw 6741, markdalgleish 6719, Trinea 6715, SublimeText 6707, owncloud 6698, feross 6687, jhollingworth 6680, shutterstock 6664, adam-p 6661, bolshchikov 6650, dbushell 6632, tumblr 6617, Instagram 6615, leafo 6613, ded 6611, krzysztofzablocki 6608, ReactiveCocoa 6592, spree 6579, bitcoin 6578, arturadib 6566, audreyr 6560, coolwanglu 6537, cucumber 6500, magicalpanda 6499, sinatra 6489, ziadoz 6439, irungentoo 6438, MugunthKumar 6435, NetEase 6421, vitalets 6413, omz 6409, jdg 6398, MatthewMueller 6396, PredictionIO 6391, collectiveidea 6358, jondot 6355, zeromq 6352, SlexAxton 6334, dotnet 6312, fogleman 6312, popcorn-time 6303, aspnet 6277, mgonto 6275, ducksboard 6260, bergie 6247, jackmoore 6242, JeffreyWay 6241, adamdbradley 6231, excilys 6212, HumbleSoftware 6208, ccgus 6201, Marak 6193, srobbin 6179, mgcrea 6177, gravityonmars 6176, strongloop 6166, bobthecow 6166, dcramer 6141, kamens 6131, mafintosh 6113, GoodBoyDigital 6111, carlhuda 6085, cloudwu 6085, thomasdavis 6054, woothemes 6046, sdegutis 6045, enormego 6045, mailgun 6045, novus 6043, OscarGodson 6042, dangrossman 6029, android 6028, danielamitay 6020, apotonick 6019, BBC-News 6012, limetext 6000, linnovate 5998, jschr 5991, doctrine 5985, cloudera 5963, marionettejs 5951, balupton 5949, blackberry 5948, ServiceStack 5935, SignalR 5912, celluloid 5904, kivy 5887, jekyll 5875, vladikoff 5871, mislav 5867, jzaefferer 5855, dimsemenov 5848, raspberrypi 5840, NULLPointerDz 5834, jacomyal 5828, travis-ci 5821, nolimits4web 5812, bebraw 5777, robb 5772, lepture 5758, Unitech 5755, path 5729, afaqurk 5727, tommoor 5724, maker 5712, ubuwaits 5711, mruby 5703, tholman 5702, ecomfe 5674, paulasmuth 5670, sergeche 5669, brianreavis 5658, hadley 5638, kien 5637, nst 5637, niklasvh 5610, brunch 5605, tuupola 5598, rsms 5593, amatsuda 5592, tomchristie 5571, videojs 5570, tastejs 5557, Khan 5556, jshint 5555, schacon 5553, pagekite 5552, erica 5550, samsoffes 5541, twilio 5537, imsky 5533, Alamofire 5523, rwaldron 5522, weavejester 5521, jxnblk 5520, bkeepers 5519, dart-lang 5519, kkga 5509, wg 5503, JacksonTian 5480, pydata 5461, scala 5457, cjbarber 5453, nex3 5443, mindmup 5427, bevacqua 5426, revolunet 5414, rnystrom 5413, malsup 5393, cujojs 5391, domnikl 5383, nathansmith 5378, WhiteHouse 5363, gilbitron 5350, fex-team 5349, Inferis 5334, AlloyTeam 5334, msgpack 5333, marcuswestin 5329, avelino 5320, jlukic 5302, JoelBesada 5299, ginatrapani 5295, jessepollak 5289, bgrins 5286, aziz 5282, FredrikNoren 5277, toastdriven 5265, derickbailey 5258, venmo 5250, Snugug 5242, airblade 5238, thomas-mcdonald 5234, mpospese 5227, n1k0 5196, inconshreveable 5190, philipwalton 5184, julycoding 5182, greenrobot 5153, jedi4ever 5147, phusion 5143, borismus 5141, nothingmagical 5133, yyx990803 5130, stubbornella 5126, SteveSanderson 5124, julianlloyd 5121, ggreer 5119, guzzle 5105, rentzsch 5099, luis-almeida 5094, golang 5089, olton 5084, jnunemaker 5083, lloyd 5079, soundcloud 5075, Grouper 5065, appcelerator 5050, seyhunak 5046, wearefractal 5039, douban 5033, FriendsOfSymfony 5025, boto 5020, johnpapa 5013, imulus 4991, thephpleague 4991, cloudfoundry 4989, kangax 4988, topcoat 4983, docopt 4983, bling 4982, tildeio 4981, opscode-cookbooks 4981, nzakas 4981, faif 4966, schneems 4950, unconed 4950, mleibman 4917, jeromeetienne 4904, jigish 4902, gabrielemariotti 4888, scikit-learn 4887, elixir-lang 4886, MrRio 4879, petkaantonov 4874, drone 4868, pornel 4866, PHPOffice 4865, ManuelPeinado 4862, nostalgiaz 4859, IronSummitMedia 4852, alexgorbatchev 4842, andreamazz 4841, gogits 4817, benoitc 4805, gionkunz 4803, buymeasoda 4791, ttscoff 4779, amoffat 4779, qiao 4773, somerandomdude 4768, karma-runner 4759, Flipboard 4749, mranney 4737, chriseppstein 4731, bevry 4725, getpelican 4715, ParsePlatform 4710, realm 4709, codahale 4707, auduno 4696, alloy 4689, braziljs 4686, grosser 4681, SimonVT 4668, amsul 4665, mozilla-services 4664, lipka 4663, stephenmcd 4659, liuliu 4651, globocom 4646, eduardolundgren 4644, warpech 4643, nesquena 4630, middleman 4626, TeehanLax 4622, needim 4621, bnoguchi 4609, sjl 4607, dfcb 4607, typesafehub 4605, jnordberg 4605, mgechev 4590, mroth 4589, junegunn 4585, gregbell 4582, boxen 4581, benweet 4578, quilljs 4577, sitaramc 4574, jed 4572, ExactTarget 4568, progit 4561, seajs 4556, calmh 4552, sintaxi 4551, Yelp 4548, flyerhzm 4548, yinwang0 4544, fontello 4542, Itseez 4537, Pixelkit 4513, jonleighton 4511, javve 4506, binux 4500, ContinuumIO 4490, paulmillr 4488, kriswallsmith 4481, rails-api 4480, rupa 4479, callemall 4472, josephmisiti 4460, philsturgeon 4458, mneorr 4458, tonymillion 4454, p-e-w 4448, aphyr 4445, ztellman 4444, sockjs 4437, angular-app 4428, Gazler 4424, lokesh 4407, leemunroe 4404, netty 4403, OpenEmu 4402, rspec 4396, paperjs 4394, mattgemmell 4393, Cocoanetics 4392, mailchimp 4391, voronianski 4385, aosabook 4384, tommcfarlin 4383, blasten 4377, cldwalker 4372, flynn 4368, Thibaut 4367, thinkpixellab 4366, zsh-users 4360, fabric 4360, xbmc 4358, ericdrowell 4356, azer 4344, dockyard 4344, kstenerud 4342, karan 4340, agentzh 4339, rtomayko 4327, indutny 4319, ernie 4318, isagalaev 4298, mscdex 4297, openshift 4294, eclipse 4283, millermedeiros 4280, mwaterfall 4277, flot 4272, bradbirdsall 4262, 0xced 4259, NimbusFoundry 4246, layervault 4233, davidsonfellipe 4227, cheeaun 4227, johnezang 4221, BoltsFramework 4219, marcoarment 4218, daviferreira 4212, hybridgroup 4208, c9s 4195, arshaw 4189, couchbaselabs 4189, assaf 4182, mutualmobile 4180, Team-Sass 4173, thekarangoel 4171, coleifer 4165, popcorn-team 4165, al3x 4161, taobao 4159, hzlzh 4155, rmurphey 4149, skwp 4147, madebymany 4141, mde 4140, robfig 4139, phinze 4135, NaturalNode 4135, mcavage 4119, jlong 4116, fnando 4111, koenbok 4105, codecombat 4101, Reactive-Extensions 4097, CloudMade 4095, rigoneri 4090, b4winckler 4089, romannurik 4082, takezoe 4079, lodash 4066, jspahrsummers 4062, trentm 4055, obfuscurity 4053, pokeb 4052, influxdb 4043, thecodepath 4039, heelhook 4028, jessesquires 4023, jupiterjs 4023, shakyShane 4021, nicolasgramlich 4020, oesmith 4014, josh 4009, kr 4008, ibdknox 4003, keen 4002, levey 3996, valums 3992, Russell91 3992, wbond 3988, onevcat 3988, hbons 3988, balanced 3986, Seldaek 3985, kishikawakatsumi 3985, puma 3984, powmedia 3981, sampsyo 3981, less 3972, applidium 3971, ajkochanowicz 3970, serbanghita 3969, arduino 3969, assemble 3965, adamschwartz 3962, rakyll 3958, ichord 3944, magnars 3944, tmm1 3935, HenrikJoreteg 3930, fastly 3921, SublimeLinter 3921, Ehesp 3919, MSOpenTech 3916, typicode 3916, fredwu 3914, nsf 3912, kristopolous 3911, gotosleep 3905, helios-framework 3903, sloria 3902, uikit 3890, bradfitz 3885, Esri 3884, graphite-project 3884, MatthewYork 3883, roots 3876, medialize 3871, hoisie 3869, emilsjolander 3862, huangz1990 3861, barryvdh 3861, monospacecollective 3861, radar 3857, Unknwon 3847, octocat 3846, jsantell 3846, janpaepke 3844, maroslaw 3833, walmartlabs 3827, zedshaw 3826, tombenner 3824, fluent 3821, tenderlove 3816, codeforamerica 3814, bmatzelle 3812, josevalim 3807, Mashape 3800, pa7 3800, alexwolfe 3797, markjaquith 3793, Eugeny 3793, sorin-ionescu 3787, joemccann 3784, flavienlaurent 3782, overtone 3779, rgrove 3775, amdjs 3773, fabien-d 3769, Huddle 3761, divio 3757, klaussilveira 3752, pld-linux 3745, turingou 3744, subtlepatterns 3743, jdan 3738, qrohlf 3734, klen 3727, hij1nx 3726, piwik 3724, retlehs 3719, benpickles 3719, Prismatic 3717, emmetio 3714, fish-shell 3714, SamSaffron 3712, the-teacher 3708, scrapinghub 3700, tmpvar 3700, Bearded-Hen 3699, nicolasff 3697, javan 3691, pry 3688, greatfire 3682, novoda 3678, disqus 3678, malarkey 3677, louisremi 3675, indragiek 3672, zmoazeni 3671, samuelclay 3668, VerbalExpressions 3668, ericam 3665, andrew 3662, zynga 3661, dhgamache 3658, epeli 3656, stedolan 3652, seattlerb 3649, johannilsson 3647, rapid7 3646, chaplinjs 3641, CEWendel 3635, dieulot 3621, michael 3620, prose 3618, semu 3603, technoweenie 3595, 1602 3589, fatih 3589, supermarin 3585, nicolargo 3583, sosedoff 3581, sobri909 3576, thlorenz 3573, meltingice 3570, lexrus 3570, bradfrost 3559, mmcgrana 3553, trogdoro 3553, eddiemachado 3549, rust-lang 3547, alexbw 3543, zxing 3540, orangeduck 3537, Pylons 3536, pkluz 3535, Diogenesthecynic 3532, spumko 3530, omab 3530, jlongster 3522, vmg 3519, FasterXML 3509, vicpenap 3496, mame 3494, eaigner 3493, jeresig 3490, crosbymichael 3480, HipByte 3479, extend 3475, sqlmapproject 3475, meskyanichi 3470, DataTables 3468, amix 3466, johnmyleswhite 3463, jezdez 3460, fancyapps 3458, myusuf3 3457, pazguille 3457, willdurand 3450, GBKS 3448, celery 3447, enyojs 3444, browserstate 3432, bup 3431, michaelficarra 3428, jimhigson 3428, w3c 3428, rcrowley 3427, padolsey 3422, masayuki0812 3419, cemerick 3419, thinkaurelius 3416, pypa 3415, icanzilb 3413, PaulUithol 3406, anvaka 3406, amplab 3402, johndyer 3399, burke 3393, WindowsAzure 3393, jverdi 3392, krasimir 3391, myell0w 3391, kneath 3390, JugglerShu 3388, rmm5t 3386, jonschlinkert 3381, rxin 3378, peers 3376, simplefocus 3371, nhaarman 3370, mattdiamond 3366, OwlFonk 3361, Kozea 3360, todc 3355, mixu 3355, triceam 3354, eligrey 3352, Induction 3348, chrisdone 3346, node-inspector 3345, vojtajina 3344, sbt 3343, chinchang 3342, Redth 3342, edgecase 3340, nomad 3334, chriskiehl 3333, mozilla-b2g 3328, impressivewebs 3320, bennyguitar 3318, postmodern 3309, ndbroadbent 3303, aheckmann 3303, sickill 3302, cyrilmottier 3300, guardianproject 3299, brianc 3298, escoz 3297, ncb000gt 3297, terryma 3296, zeman 3294, DanMcInerney 3292, webpy 3291, sebyddd 3289, alikaragoz 3289, kjbekkelund 3287, domesticcatsoftware 3285, theonion 3282, smileyborg 3281, railsware 3279, josdejong 3277, chrismiles 3269, CanvasPod 3266, faye 3266, zencoder 3260, lukehaas 3259, mattetti 3248, youtube 3246, huacnlee 3244, sprang 3238, seatgeek 3238, olivernn 3237, ircmaxell