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Kong/insomnia

The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.

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How fast Kong/insomnia is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 6 – Nov 5, 2026

Stars +155 in 61 days

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Forks +41 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 135 in 61 days

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Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

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Stars, forks, merged pull requests and Trendshift Trending rank, by day
DayStars gainedForks gainedMerged PRs
Sun, Sep 6, 2026+8+00
Mon, Sep 7, 2026+0+05
Tue, Sep 8, 2026+2+10
Wed, Sep 9, 2026+1+03
Thu, Sep 10, 2026+1+15
Fri, Sep 11, 2026+3+00
Sat, Sep 12, 2026+0+00
Sun, Sep 13, 2026+4+00
Mon, Sep 14, 2026+5+06
Tue, Sep 15, 2026+4+12
Wed, Sep 16, 2026+2+02
Thu, Sep 17, 2026+1+02
Fri, Sep 18, 2026+2+23
Sat, Sep 19, 2026+0+00
Sun, Sep 20, 2026+1+01
Mon, Sep 21, 2026+5+14
Tue, Sep 22, 2026+0+24
Wed, Sep 23, 2026+3+13
Thu, Sep 24, 2026+0+16
Fri, Sep 25, 2026+0+20
Sat, Sep 26, 2026+3+10
Sun, Sep 27, 2026+2+00
Mon, Sep 28, 2026+5+22
Tue, Sep 29, 2026+2+32
Wed, Sep 30, 2026+0+00
Thu, Oct 1, 2026+0+10
Fri, Oct 2, 2026+0+00
Sat, Oct 3, 2026+0+01
Sun, Oct 4, 2026+3+20
Mon, Oct 5, 2026+0+10
Tue, Oct 6, 2026+0+00
Wed, Oct 7, 2026+0+10
Thu, Oct 8, 2026+2+14
Fri, Oct 9, 2026+0+11
Sat, Oct 10, 2026+0+13
Sun, Oct 11, 2026+9+00
Mon, Oct 12, 2026+5+01
Tue, Oct 13, 2026+0+27
Wed, Oct 14, 2026+2+14
Thu, Oct 15, 2026+0+25
Fri, Oct 16, 2026+1+02
Sat, Oct 17, 2026+4+10
Sun, Oct 18, 2026+2+00
Mon, Oct 19, 2026+5+19
Tue, Oct 20, 2026+10+14
Wed, Oct 21, 2026+0+09
Thu, Oct 22, 2026+4+014
Fri, Oct 23, 2026+0+11
Sat, Oct 24, 2026+2+00
Sun, Oct 25, 2026+3+00
Mon, Oct 26, 2026+3+06
Tue, Oct 27, 2026+9+13
Wed, Oct 28, 2026+9+14
Thu, Oct 29, 2026+4+04
Fri, Oct 30, 2026+5+10
Sat, Oct 31, 2026+0+00
Sun, Nov 1, 2026+1+10
Mon, Nov 2, 2026+4+11
Tue, Nov 3, 2026+2+11
Wed, Nov 4, 2026+12+01
Thu, Nov 5, 2026+0+00
Total+155+41135
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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Jun 18 – Jun 20, 2026Best #8

    #1#5#10#15#20#25
    Top 10
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    Mentions and achievements

    Where people are talking about Kong/insomnia, and every badge it has earned
    1. Oct 221 post

      • 调接口还在手写请求，反复试参数？🧪 Insomnia 用图形界面测试 REST、GraphQL 等 API，支持请求集合和环境变量。联调时更直观。🚀 #APITesting #浇朋友 #蓝朋友 #互关 #fo

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    2. 4 months earlier
    3. Jun 211 post

      • 📝 insomnia ⭐ 39,438 stars **"Client API open-source ultime pour GraphQL, REST et bien plus !"** #GitHub

        Read full on X, posted by @clxymox

        @clxymox · x.com

    4. Jun 181 post

      • [3/7] 💻 GitHub Trending Kilo is an open-source agentic engineering platform for faster code development and deployment.

        Read full on X, posted by @ProbBrain

        @ProbBrain · x.com

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