fdroid-insights
F-Droid Insights is a simple website that lets you explore F-Droid apps enriched by data coming from external websites such as Github. It facilitates the discovery of popular and well-maintained projects which might be challenging to locate on the regular F-Droid website.
Motivation
F-Droid is the best app store to find FOSS Android apps.
It allows thousands of independent developers to freely publish their apps and making them available to the general public.
Operating solely on donations to sustain their infrastructure, F-Droid offers an ad-free experience, without any premium features or sponsored apps.
On top of that they also don't track their users, you don't even need an account to download apps. However, the lack of information regarding app metrics (download count, similar apps) represents a challenge when selecting among multiple options.
The idea behind F-Droid Insights is to leverage external metrics to help finding popular and well-maintained F-Droid apps.
Usage
The data should be re-generated every monday.
If you want to manually create an export:
- Download
index-v2.jsonfrom F-Droid (~35 MB file). - Copy
.env.exampleto.envand fill it with your own tokens. python fdroid_data_exporter.py: will createexport.csvcontaining F-Droid apps data.python fdroid_html_builder.py: will createdocs/index.htmlwithexport.csvandtemplate.html.
External data
- Github: number of stars, forks
- Gitlab : number of stars, forks
- Codeberg : number of stars, forks