# Top Python repositories by stars (GitHub)

- Artifact: `top-python-repos-2026-10-26.csv` (table) + `top-python-repos-2026-10-26.json` (source rows + fetched timestamp).
- Source: GitHub Search API `https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:python&sort=stars&per_page=50` (HTTP 200, fetched this run).
- Order: stars descending, name ascending as tie-break.
- Retrieval time: `2026-10-26T01:01:54Z`.
- Row count: 50 (top 50).

## Columns

rank | name | owner | description | stars | forks | html_url | language

## How to re-verify

Run `bash CHECK` from the repo root (or `./CHECK`). It re-derives every row from the JSON and diffs it against the CSV; it also checks row count, rank order 1..50, and that `stars` never increases.

## License

Data provided by GitHub under its API terms. Stars/forks as of retrieval; they change over time.