Top 10 GitHub — Trending Python — Mar 30–Apr 5, 2026

The GitHub Python trending chart for March 30–April 5, 2026 skews heavily toward mature, high-utility infrastructure — a sign that developer attention is consolidating around proven tooling rather than chasing novelty. EbookFoundation/free-programming-books (384,000+ stars, the most-starred repo on all of GitHub) holds #1 as the canonical curated index of free learning resources; engineering teams frequently use it to structure onboarding paths across languages. yt-dlp at #6 (~80k stars) is the actively maintained fork of the long-deprecated youtube-dl — a production-grade CLI for media extraction that installs in one step (`pip install yt-dlp`) and supports 1,000+ sites with granular format selection (`yt-dlp -f 'bestvideo+bestaudio' <URL>`). It outpaces alternatives like gallery-dl for video-heavy pipelines. open-webui at #10 (~45k stars) is the list's clearest AI-native signal: a self-hosted ChatGPT-style interface that connects to Ollama, LiteLLM, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint via a single `docker run` command, making it the fastest path to internal AI tooling without sending data to third-party APIs. The unifying theme across all ten entries is durability over hype. Choose by use case: yt-dlp for data ingestion pipelines, open-webui for self-hosted LLM interfaces, and free-programming-books as a living reference index. Star counts and download data are sourced from GitHub's public API and reflect the seven-day trending window.