GitHub Hourly Activity Screensaver
The GitHub Hourly Activity screensaver shows one complete hour of public activity across all of GitHub, tallied by the pipeline from the GH Archive dumps: how many events, how many distinct people, which kinds of action and which repositories were busiest. It's free, runs in your browser, and ESC exits.
How the GitHub Hourly Activity screensaver works
The background pipeline reads this from GH Archive and saves a snapshot the saver loads.
One complete hour of public activity across all of GitHub, tallied by the pipeline from the GH Archive dumps: how many events, how many distinct people, which kinds of action and which repositories were busiest..
It refreshes on a schedule, so what you see stays current.
Colours can be changed in settings; nothing is stored beyond your own browser.
A worked example
One complete hour of public activity across all of GitHub, tallied by the pipeline from the GH Archive dumps: how many events, how many distinct people, which kinds of action and which repositories were busiest.
Settings & tips
- Accent and Background recolour the display.
- Run
automation/run.py gharchiveto refresh the feed. - Press ESC to leave fullscreen.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this real data?
- Yes — it comes from GH Archive and is refreshed on a schedule.
- Is this every GitHub event?
- It is every public event in one complete hour, as published by GH Archive. Private activity is not included, and the hour shown lags slightly while the dump is written.
- Is a key needed?
- No. This source is fully key-less.
- Is it free?
- Yes — free, no download, in your browser.