---
title: top
description: 'This content describes two features: ''Model'' and ''Chart''. ''Model''
  gets repositories sorted by stars or forks with possible category filtering. ''Chart''
  plots a repo summary. Both procedures involve parameters like ''sortby'', ''categories'',
  ''limit'', ''export'', and ''external_axes''.'
keywords:
- Documentation
- Model
- Chart
- Repositories
- Stars
- Forks
- Filtering
- Parameters
- Sortby
- Categories
- Limit
- Export
- External_axes
---

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<HeadTitle title="alt.oss.top - Reference | OpenBB SDK Docs" />

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Get repos sorted by stars or forks. Can be filtered by categories.

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/alternative/oss/github_model.py#L135)]

```python
openbb.alt.oss.top(sortby: str, limit: int = 50, categories: str = "")
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| sortby | str | Sort repos by {stars, forks} | None | False |
| categories | str | Check for repo categories. If more than one separate with a comma: e.g., finance,investment. Default: None |  | True |
| limit | int | Number of repos to search for | 50 | True |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | Dataframe with repos |
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</TabItem>
<TabItem value="view" label="Chart">

Plots repo summary [Source: https://api.github.com].

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/alternative/oss/github_view.py#L65)]

```python
openbb.alt.oss.top_chart(sortby: str, categories: str = "", limit: int = 10, export: str = "", external_axes: Optional[List[matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes]] = None)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| sortby | str | Sort repos by {stars, forks} | None | False |
| categories | str | Check for repo categories. If more than one separate with a comma: e.g., finance,investment. Default: None |  | True |
| limit | int | Number of repos to look at | 10 | True |
| export | str | Export dataframe data to csv,json,xlsx file |  | True |
| external_axes | Optional[List[plt.Axes]] | External axes (1 axis is expected in the list), by default None | None | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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