BurntSushi/ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore

Developer toolsRust#ripgrep#recursively-search#search#regex#gitignore

3.3 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

A command-line tool for recursively searching files with regular expressions, respecting .gitignore rules by default and skipping hidden and binary files. Written in Rust, it runs on Windows, macOS and Linux and is positioned as a fast replacement for grep, ack and The Silver Searcher.

Useful for

Find all occurrences of a string in a project's sources without scanning node_modules or .git
Restrict the search to specific file types, e.g. rg -tpy for Python files
Search a large log file or dump with match highlighting and line numbers

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

19 stars so far today, about 24 expected by the end of the day.
GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +57 stars.
About 273 forks a day — people are taking the code.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 68,410
Stars in a day: 24
Forks: 3,020
Issues and pull requests: 2,986
Watchers: 315
Language: Rust
License: Unlicense
Latest release: 15.2.0 · July 15, 2026
Created: March 11, 2016
Last push: August 4, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #12, +57 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending Rust today: #17, +42 stars

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