ashayas/icloud-s3
- Total stars
- 148
- Today
- +27since 10:09 UTC
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An S3-compatible object store backed by iCloud Shared Photo Albums. Quota policy: Apple's Shared Album loophole.
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About the project
A satirical Rust server that implements the S3 XML REST protocol but stores objects inside lossless RGB PNG carrier images in iCloud Shared Photo Albums, exploiting Apple's policy that shared album media doesn't count against iCloud quota.
Useful for
- Point the unmodified aws s3 CLI at the local endpoint to test S3-compatible operations
- Encode a file into a PNG carrier and decode it back via the CLI without running the server
- Run the built-in benchmark comparing throughput against Cloudflare R2
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Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 31, 2026, 12:25 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-31 (UTC), 10:09–12:15: 121 → 148 stars (+27). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +49 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 148 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #187.
- About 44 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @RandyMcMillan (519 followers).
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
The full 7-day window is unavailable; no weekly total or comparison is calculated.
Daily measurements · UTC
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- October 30, 2026
- 38
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 38 · October 30, 2026. Days with data: 1.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 31, 2026, 12:24 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
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Numbers
- Total stars
- 148
- Today
- +27 stars measured 2026-10-31, 10:09–12:15 UTC, ≈ 49 by evening
- Forks
- 12
- Issues and pull requests
- 0
- Watchers
- 1
- Language
- Rust
- Created
- October 30, 2026
- Last push
- October 31, 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
- October 31, 2026Top new repositories this week: #166
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