# n8n-io/n8n — GitHub star history and repository health

Canonical HTML: https://gitdebt.com/n8n-io/n8n

Status: analyzed. Every figure below is measured — star history from gitdebt's Postgres cache, repository health from the public Git history. Private repositories are never analyzed or counted.

## Star snapshot

| Metric | Value |
| --- | --- |
| GitHub stars | 204,324 |
| Series | public star actions (historical data) |
| Star events observed | 138,363 |
| History covers | 2019-06-23 to 2026-09-15 |
| Repository created | 2019-06-22 |

The series records public star *actions* and cannot see unstars, so it is an attention signal rather than a net-star curve. The GitHub star total above is the headline figure.

### Growth records

| Window | Stars gained | Dates |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Best day | +946 | 2019-10-08 |
| Best week | +4,298 | 2025-04-08 to 2025-04-14 |
| Best 30 days | +13,655 | 2025-03-26 to 2025-04-24 |

### Milestones

| Stars | First reached | Days from creation |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 100 | 2019-10-02 | 102 |
| 1,000 | 2019-10-08 | 108 |
| 10,000 | 2020-10-12 | 478 |
| 100,000 | 2025-06-11 | 2,181 |

## Repository health

Raw figures over the trailing 90 days, computed from the public Git history. gitdebt publishes the counts rather than a grade here: judge them against what the project claims to be.

| Reading | Figures |
| --- | --- |
| Maintenance | 3,222 commits in the last 90 days, 2,342 in the 90 before · last commit 2026-09-09 |
| Ownership | 11 of 815 contributors write half of 22,589 attributed commits · top author 3,935 commits |
| Repair load | 39,686 of 218,515 file changes came from fix-labelled commits |
| Debt markers | -2 TODO/FIXME markers in the last 90 days · 0 outstanding |
| Change hotspot | `packages/frontend/@n8n/i18n/src/locales/en.json` · 972 changes · 258 fix-labelled |
| File freshness | 29,751 of 42,337 tracked files touched in the last year |
| Commits read | 24,088 (full commit history) |
| Analysis last ran | 2026-09-10T02:46:41Z |

## Put this in a README

Three paste-ready snippets for `n8n-io/n8n`. Every URL is a plain public image: no account, token, build step, or GitHub Action. Each snippet already carries light and dark variants, alt text, and the link back to the report.

### Metrics badge

Stars and forks in one compact chip. Goes in the badge row directly under the project title.

```html
<a href="https://gitdebt.com/n8n-io/n8n?ref=readme">
  <picture>
    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/badge.svg?metrics=stars,forks&theme=dark" />
    <img alt="n8n-io/n8n stars and forks" src="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/badge.svg?metrics=stars,forks&theme=light" />
  </picture>
</a>
```

### Star history

The full cumulative star curve. Goes in a `## Star history` section near the bottom of the README, above License.

```html
<a href="https://gitdebt.com/n8n-io/n8n?ref=readme">
  <picture>
    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/chart.svg?theme=dark" />
    <img alt="n8n-io/n8n star history" src="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/chart.svg?theme=light" />
  </picture>
</a>
```

### Repository card

Stars, forks, contributors, languages, and a 90-day sparkline in one panel. Goes in an About or Project status section.

```html
<a href="https://gitdebt.com/n8n-io/n8n?ref=readme">
  <picture>
    <source media="(prefers-color-scheme: dark)" srcset="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/card.svg?theme=dark" />
    <img alt="n8n-io/n8n repository statistics" src="https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/card.svg?theme=light" />
  </picture>
</a>
```

Snippets are static by design, because motion in somebody else's README should be their decision: add `animate=1` to an SVG URL when it is wanted and it plays in a GitHub README, or use the `.gif` variant for a surface that takes raster alone. Keep the surrounding link and its `?ref=readme` — attribution lives on the link, never in an image URL — and do not add cache-busting parameters.

The complete asset catalog, with every snippet, is at https://gitdebt.com/badges.md.

## Live data

- Repository on GitHub: https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n
- Star history JSON: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/stars.json
- Star history CSV: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/stars.csv
- Repository-health summary: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/health.json
- Repository-health detail: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/stats.json
- Earned badges: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/earned-badges.json
- Queue and ETA snapshot: https://api.gitdebt.com/api/repos/n8n-io/n8n/progress.json
