How To Monitor Open Source Trends With The OpenBB Terminal!
Tags: open, github, star, repo
Published: 2022-05-01 03:53:01

Admittedly, we are likely a little biased when it comes to open-source projects. The rest of the world may only be learning what OSS is because Elon Musk has been twatting about opening up the algorithm. 

We all know the value, I don't need to sell y'all on it. When it comes to following projects, you can keep your ear even closer to the ground with the Open Source Menu of the OpenBB Terminal.

If you haven't already, the first thing you need to do is go to GitHub and star the OpenBB Terminal Repo. 

[OpenBB GitHub Repo](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal)
![https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/aybf72kdks92uio10n4i.png)

While you're there, fork the repo and follow along!

![Get To The OSS Menu (https://openbb-finance.github.io/OpenBBTerminal/terminal/alternative/oss/)](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/bv4rowsgno8vnbqctg4c.png)

There are four commands to choose from in the OSS submenu:

rs: Repo Summary
```
(🦋) /alternative/oss/ $ rs -h
usage: rs [-r REPO] [-h] [--export EXPORT] [--raw]

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

optional arguments:
  -r REPO, --repo REPO  Repository to search for repo summary. Format: org/repo, e.g., openbb-finance/openbbterminal (default: None)
  -h, --help            show this help message (default: False)
  --export EXPORT       Export raw data into csv, json, xlsx (default: )
  --raw                 Flag to display raw data (default: False)
```

sh: Repo Star History
```
(🦋) /alternative/oss/ $ sh -h
usage: sh [-r REPO] [-h] [--export EXPORT] [--raw]

Display a repo star history [Source: https://api.github.com]

optional arguments:
  -r REPO, --repo REPO  Repository to search for star history. Format: org/repo, e.g., openbb-finance/openbbterminal (default: None)
  -h, --help            show this help message (default: False)
  --export EXPORT       Export raw data into csv, json, xlsx and figure into png, jpg, pdf, svg (default: )
  --raw                 Flag to display raw data (default: False)
```

tr: Top Starred Repos
```
(🦋) /alternative/oss/ $ tr -h
usage: tr [-s {stars,forks}] [-c CATEGORIES] [-h] [--export EXPORT] [--raw] [-l LIMIT]

Display top repositories [Source: https://api.github.com]

optional arguments:
  -s {stars,forks}, --sortby {stars,forks}
                        Sort repos by {stars, forks}. Default: stars (default: stars)
  -c CATEGORIES, --categories CATEGORIES
                        Filter by repo categories. If more than one separate with a comma: e.g., finance,investment (default: )
  -h, --help            show this help message (default: False)
  --export EXPORT       Export raw data into csv, json, xlsx and figure into png, jpg, pdf, svg (default: )
  --raw                 Flag to display raw data (default: False)
  -l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
                        Number of entries to show in data. (default: 10)
```

rossidx: The Ross Index - An Index Comprised Of The Fastest Growing Open-Source Startups
```
(🦋) /alternative/oss/ $ rossidx -h
usage: rossidx [-s SORTBY [SORTBY ...]] [--descend] [-c] [-g] [-t {stars,forks}] [-h] [--export EXPORT] [-l LIMIT]

Display list of startups from ross index [Source: https://runacap.com/] Use --chart to display chart and -t {stars,forks} to set chart type

optional arguments:
  -s SORTBY [SORTBY ...], --sortby SORTBY [SORTBY ...]
                        Sort startups by column (default: Stars AGR [%])
  --descend             Flag to sort in descending order (lowest first) (default: False)
  -c, --chart           Flag to show chart (default: False)
  -g, --growth          Flag to show growth chart (default: False)
  -t {stars,forks}, --chart-type {stars,forks}
                        Chart type: {stars, forks} (default: stars)
  -h, --help            show this help message (default: False)
  --export EXPORT       Export raw data into csv, json, xlsx (default: )
  -l LIMIT, --limit LIMIT
                        Number of entries to show in data. (default: 10)
```

Here's what you get:

Repo Summary
```
                                                                                                 Repo summary                                                                                                  
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Metric                 ┃ Value                                                                                                                                                                              ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ Name                   │ OpenBBTerminal                                                                                                                                                                     │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Owner                  │ OpenBB-finance                                                                                                                                                                     │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Creation Date          │ 2020-12-20                                                                                                                                                                         │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Last Update            │ 2022-05-01                                                                                                                                                                         │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Topics                 │ artificial-intelligence, cryptocurrency, economics, finance, gamestonk-terminal, investment, investment-analysis, investment-research, machine-learning, python,                   │
│                        │ quantitative-finance, stock-market, stocks, terminal-app                                                                                                                           │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Stars                  │ 11785                                                                                                                                                                              │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Forks                  │ 1265                                                                                                                                                                               │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Open Issues            │ 50                                                                                                                                                                                 │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Language               │ Python                                                                                                                                                                             │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ License                │ MIT License                                                                                                                                                                        │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Releases               │ 2                                                                                                                                                                                  │
├────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Last Release Downloads │ 965                                                                                                                                                                                │
└────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```

Star History:
![OpenBB GitHub Star History (https://openbb-finance.github.io/OpenBBTerminal/terminal/alternative/oss/sh/)](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/unojz80h1c26zrupr5e9.png)

Top Starred Repos:
![Top Starred Finance Repos On GitHub (https://openbb-finance.github.io/OpenBBTerminal/terminal/alternative/oss/tr/)](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/lfxv4suck43qr6e955v2.png)
 
We're coming for you, Plotly Dash! 

Finally, the masterpiece of open-source aggregates, The Ross Index:

![Have Your Chart, Your Way Today! (https://openbb-finance.github.io/OpenBBTerminal/terminal/alternative/oss/rossidx/)](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/3isrjm7zqns54iwyzpnc.png)

You can get a chart, get a table; user's choice.

```
(🦋) /alternative/oss/ $ rossidx -s Founded
                                             ROSS Index - the fastest-growing open-source startups                                             
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ GitHub     ┃ Company     ┃ Country     ┃ City          ┃ Founded ┃ Raised [$M] ┃ Language   ┃ Stars ┃ Forks ┃ Stars AGR [%] ┃ Forks AGR [%] ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ gravitl/ne │ Netmaker    │ USA         │ Asheville     │ 2021    │ 0.1         │ Go         │ 3546  │ 213   │ 1422          │ 1532          │
│ tmaker     │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ prabhatsha │ Zinc        │ USA         │ San Francisco │ 2021    │             │ Go         │ 6687  │ 290   │ 376           │ 421           │
│ rma/zinc   │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ medusajs/m │ Medusa      │ Denmark     │ Copenhagen    │ 2021    │ 1.0         │ JavaScript │ 9833  │ 500   │ 863           │ 1135          │
│ edusa      │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ tooljet/to │ ToolJet     │ India       │ Bengaluru     │ 2021    │ 1.6         │ JavaScript │ 8856  │ 657   │ 1656          │ 1034          │
│ oljet      │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ slint-     │ Slint       │ Germany     │ Berlin        │ 2020    │             │ Rust       │ 4115  │ 122   │ 470           │ 483           │
│ ui/slint   │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ orchest/or │ Orchest     │ Netherlands │ Rotterdam     │ 2020    │ 4.2         │ Python     │ 2528  │ 142   │ 385           │ 119           │
│ chest      │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ amplicatio │ Amplication │ Israel      │ Tel Aviv      │ 2020    │ 6.6         │ TypeScript │ 6296  │ 319   │ 812           │ 667           │
│ n/amplicat │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
│ ion        │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ withfig/au │ Fig         │ USA         │ San Francisco │ 2020    │ 2.4         │ TypeScript │ 14329 │ 3425  │ 716           │ 486           │
│ tocomplete │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ growthbook │ GrowthBook  │ USA         │ Palo Alto     │ 2020    │ 0.5         │ TypeScript │ 2791  │ 109   │ 503           │ 824           │
│ /growthboo │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
│ k          │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
├────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────┼───────────────┼─────────┼─────────────┼────────────┼───────┼───────┼───────────────┼───────────────┤
│ coqui-     │ Coqui       │ Germany     │ Berlin        │ 2020    │             │ Python     │ 4394  │ 439   │ 381           │ 763           │
│ ai/tts     │             │             │               │         │             │            │       │       │               │               │
└────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────┴───────────────┴─────────┴─────────────┴────────────┴───────┴───────┴───────────────┴───────────────┘
```
Will OpenBB make the cut for 2022?

![The Ross Index On OpenBB Terminal (https://openbb-finance.github.io/OpenBBTerminal/terminal/alternative/oss/rossidx/)](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/6liobwmuf5larenqcgqh.png)

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