About goscan

goscan measures go mod popularity by scanning go.mod files from popular golang repos on github. I built this for personal use because I always have trouble picking dependencies. Once I got a look at the data I decided to clean it up and release.

Popular Golang Mods

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Used Mod Stars
210

A toolkit with common assertions and mocks that plays nicely with the standard library

25,749
144

Go package for UUIDs based on RFC 4122 and DCE 1.1: Authentication and Security Services.

5,983
129

A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

43,094
116
109

Prometheus instrumentation library for Go applications

5,904
108
106
89

Package for comparing Go values in tests

4,589
86

Simple error handling primitives

8,234
86

Drop-in replacement for Go's flag package, implementing POSIX/GNU-style --flags.

2,699
81

Package gorilla/websocket is a fast, well-tested and widely used WebSocket implementation for Go.

24,492
76

Structured, pluggable logging for Go.

25,689
74

Cross-platform filesystem notifications for Go.

10,537
68
66
65

Color package for Go (golang)

7,871
60

AWS SDK for the Go programming language.

3,445
60
59
58

AWS SDK for the Go programming language.

3,445
56

Package gorilla/mux is a powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

21,791
56
52

Go MySQL Driver is a MySQL driver for Go's (golang) database/sql package

15,416
51

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

71,452
49

Go configuration with fangs

29,956
49
48

Go Humans! (formatters for units to human friendly sizes)

4,796
47

Optimized Go Compression Packages

5,390
47
46

Go implementation of JSON Web Tokens (JWT).

8,888
46

Go PostgreSQL driver for database/sql

9,787
46 887
45
43

Data model artifacts for Prometheus.

77
43

Go libraries shared across Prometheus components and libraries.

291
42

AWS SDK for the Go programming language.

3,445
42
40

AWS SDK for the Go programming language.

3,445
40

DNS library in Go

8,631
38

sqlite3 driver for go using database/sql

8,955
37

This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Go. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at:

1,794
37
36
36

Go support for Google's protocol buffers

10,062
35

This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Go. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at:

1,794
35

A high-performance 100% compatible drop-in replacement of "encoding/json"

13,936
35

Redis Go client

21,902
33

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

87,917
33

A Go (golang) library for parsing and verifying versions and version constraints.

1,742
33 4,959

Popular Golang Repos

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Stars Repository Go LOC
161,874
ollama/ollama

Get up and running with Kimi-K2.5, GLM-4.7, DeepSeek, gpt-oss, Qwen, Gemma and other models.

144,748
120,294
kubernetes/kubernetes

Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management

2,563,221
104,229
fatedier/frp

A fast reverse proxy to help you expose a local server behind a NAT or firewall to the internet.

28,502
87,909
gin-gonic/gin

Gin is a high-performance HTTP web framework written in Go. It provides a Martini-like API but with significantly better performance—up to 40 times faster—thanks to httprouter. Gin is designed for building REST APIs, web applications, and microservices.

17,620
86,436
gohugoio/hugo

The world’s fastest framework for building websites.

164,418
79,662
syncthing/syncthing

Open Source Continuous File Synchronization

80,930
77,561
junegunn/fzf

:cherry_blossom: A command-line fuzzy finder

23,263
71,747
jesseduffield/lazygit

simple terminal UI for git commands

247,002
71,453
moby/moby

The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems

1,163,324
69,640
caddyserver/caddy

Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

62,998
68,787
base/node

Everything required to run your own Base node

660
68,565
nektos/act

Run your GitHub Actions locally 🚀

23,265
62,568
prometheus/prometheus

The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

243,194
61,464
traefik/traefik

The Cloud Native Application Proxy

161,827
60,110
minio/minio

MinIO is a high-performance, S3 compatible object store, open sourced under GNU AGPLv3 license.

215,385
56,593
usememos/memos

An open-source, self-hosted note-taking service. Your thoughts, your data, your control — no tracking, no ads, no subscription fees.

29,630
55,912
pocketbase/pocketbase

Open Source realtime backend in 1 file

94,678
55,360
rclone/rclone

"rsync for cloud storage" - Google Drive, S3, Dropbox, Backblaze B2, One Drive, Swift, Hubic, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob, Azure Files, Yandex Files

231,243
53,579
go-gitea/gitea

Git with a cup of tea! Painless self-hosted all-in-one software development service, including Git hosting, code review, team collaboration, package registry and CI/CD

337,652
53,277
wagoodman/dive

A tool for exploring each layer in a docker image

9,142
51,460
etcd-io/etcd

Distributed reliable key-value store for the most critical data of a distributed system

148,528
50,786
ethereum/go-ethereum

Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol

272,456
49,528
jesseduffield/lazydocker

The lazier way to manage everything docker

115,527
48,962
AlistGo/alist

🗂️A file list/WebDAV program that supports multiple storages, powered by Gin and Solidjs. / 一个支持多存储的文件列表/WebDAV程序,使用 Gin 和 Solidjs。

88,548
47,610
hashicorp/terraform

Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

474,642
47,525
gogs/gogs

Gogs is a painless self-hosted Git service

43,774
46,927
v2ray/v2ray-core

A platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions.

47,961
43,086
spf13/cobra

A Commander for modern Go CLI interactions

12,824
42,643
milvus-io/milvus

Milvus is a high-performance, cloud-native vector database built for scalable vector ANN search

654,468
42,611
mudler/LocalAI

:robot: The free, Open Source alternative to OpenAI, Claude and others. Self-hosted and local-first. Drop-in replacement, running on consumer-grade hardware. No GPU required. Runs gguf, transformers, diffusers and many more. Features: Generate Text, MCP, Audio, Video, Images, Voice Cloning, Distributed, P2P and decentralized inference

294,214
42,357
cli/cli

GitHub’s official command line tool

181,953
39,694
pingcap/tidb

TiDB - the open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for modern applications.

1,148,854
39,679
evanw/esbuild

An extremely fast bundler for the web

119,404
39,470
go-gorm/gorm

The fantastic ORM library for Golang, aims to be developer friendly

33,729
39,216
photoprism/photoprism

AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

220,552
39,113
gofiber/fiber

⚡️ Express inspired web framework written in Go

71,290
39,103
charmbracelet/bubbletea

A powerful little TUI framework 🏗

10,362
38,860
danielmiessler/Fabric

Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI. It provides a modular system for solving specific problems using a crowdsourced set of AI prompts that can be used anywhere.

23,381
37,903
istio/istio

Connect, secure, control, and observe services.

417,628
36,946
docker/compose

Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

31,680
34,968
hashicorp/vault

A tool for secrets management, encryption as a service, and privileged access management

508,767
34,923
juanfont/headscale

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

83,594
34,812
XTLS/Xray-core

Xray, Penetrates Everything. Also the best v2ray-core. Where the magic happens. An open platform for various uses.

82,755
34,073
schollz/croc

Easily and securely send things from one computer to another :crocodile: :package:

6,553
33,855
harness/harness

Harness Open Source is an end-to-end developer platform with Source Control Management, CI/CD Pipelines, Hosted Developer Environments, and Artifact Registries.

239,564
33,318
filebrowser/filebrowser

📂 Web File Browser

8,701
33,193
1Panel-dev/1Panel

🔥 1Panel offers an intuitive web interface for Linux server, making it easy to manage OpenClaw agents, LLMs, websites, databases, containers, files, and scheduled tasks.

126,879
33,174
v2fly/v2ray-core

A platform for building proxies to bypass network restrictions.

103,864
33,125
IceWhaleTech/CasaOS

CasaOS - A simple, easy-to-use, elegant open-source Personal Cloud system.

9,752
32,697
derailed/k9s

🐶 Kubernetes CLI To Manage Your Clusters In Style!

58,184