blakeblackshear/frigate

NVR with realtime local object detection for IP cameras

36.6k stars · 3.7k forks · Python

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 28 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 115
Human commits, 90 days: 389
Human commits, 365 days: 1.4k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 14%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 28
Last release: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Median PR merge time: 2 hours

Responsiveness: of 30 recent issues, 83% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: under an hour.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Personal account
Commits sampled: 229 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 1
Authors for 80% of commits: 2
Contributors: 407

Top committers

hawkeye217: 67% of commits
NickM-27: 17% of commits
blakeblackshear: 1% of commits
mweinelt: 1% of commits
007hacky007: 1% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.
Commits pushed by accounts that sync other people's work, such as translation platforms, are left out of the shares.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Mar 3, 2019 to Mar 4, 2019: about 31 more stars than usual, peak 20 in one day, a spike that tapers off. We couldn't check for an outside explanation.
Jun 24, 2019 to Jun 24, 2019: about 10 more stars than usual, peak 10 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Nov 17, 2020 to Nov 17, 2020: about 16 more stars than usual, peak 18 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jan 31, 2021 to Feb 3, 2021: about 44 more stars than usual, peak 22 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 4, 2021 to Apr 4, 2021: about 34 more stars than usual, peak 38 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 11, 2021 to Jul 13, 2021: about 77 more stars than usual, peak 45 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 14, 2021 to Aug 18, 2021: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 5, 2021 to Oct 8, 2021: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 65 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 8, 2023 to Jan 13, 2023: about 220 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 17, 2023 to Jul 20, 2023: about 288 more stars than usual, peak 115 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Aug 11, 2023 to Aug 12, 2023: about 64 more stars than usual, peak 44 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 18, 2023 to Nov 30, 2023: about 1.4k more stars than usual, peak 347 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Jan 25, 2024 to Jan 26, 2024: about 73 more stars than usual, peak 78 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Apr 19, 2024 to Apr 21, 2024: about 79 more stars than usual, peak 53 in one day, a flat block of stars. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 9, 2024 to Jun 12, 2024: about 292 more stars than usual, peak 135 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 6, 2024 to Aug 16, 2024: about 534 more stars than usual, peak 129 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 2, 2025 to Feb 4, 2025: about 286 more stars than usual, peak 229 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Jun 9, 2025 to Jun 12, 2025: about 267 more stars than usual, peak 175 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 4, 2025 to Aug 7, 2025: about 540 more stars than usual, peak 268 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a Hacker News post, a jump in forks.
Aug 16, 2025 to Aug 19, 2025: about 175 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 7, 2025 to Nov 13, 2025: about 279 more stars than usual, peak 141 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 7, 2025 to Dec 8, 2025: about 160 more stars than usual, peak 155 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests, a new release.
Dec 15, 2025 to Dec 19, 2025: about 260 more stars than usual, peak 119 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 13, 2026 to Jan 16, 2026: about 632 more stars than usual, peak 281 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Feb 10, 2026 to Feb 11, 2026: about 62 more stars than usual, peak 59 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
May 22, 2026 to May 27, 2026: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 382 in one day, a shape we can't classify. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Sep 30, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026: about 84 more stars than usual, peak 106 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.

4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 14, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: MIT (OSI-approved)
A year ago: MIT (OSI-approved)

Packages

No published packages found.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 5.9 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: blakeblackshear/frigate

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 13 hours ago · method 2026.10.2