OpenBB/website/content/sdk/reference/alt/oss/top.md

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top	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'.	Documentation Model Chart Repositories Stars Forks Filtering Parameters Sortby Categories Limit Export External_axes

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

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

Source Code: [link]

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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