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GitHub Actions installs statistics

By GitHub (16 listings) · VS Code Marketplace · Other

GitHub Actions workflows and runs for github.com hosted repositories in VS Code

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 18, 2026

GitHub Actions has 8,793,902 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #111 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 3.1 out of 5 from 64 ratings.

PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.

Installs
8,793,902
Official API · Oct 18, 2026
7-day growth
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Insufficient history
30-day growth
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Insufficient history
90-day growth
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Insufficient history
Rank
#111
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 3.13 / 5 from 64 ratings

About GitHub Actions

GitHub Actions for VS Code

The GitHub Actions extension lets you manage your workflows, view the workflow run history, and helps with authoring workflows.

Features

Manage workflows and runs

• Manage your workflows and runs without leaving your editor. • Keep track of your CI builds and deployments. • Investigate failures and view logs.

Workflow authoring

Be more confident when authoring and modifying workflows. Find errors before committing workflows with:

Syntax highlighting for workflows and GitHub Actions Expressions makes it clear where values are inserted at execution time:

Integrated documentation for the workflow schema, expression functions, and even event payloads:

Validation and code completion for the YAML schema and GitHub Actions Expressions. Get instant validation and code completion for the workflow schema, expression functions, event payloads, and job or step outputs:

Smart validation and code completion for actions and reusable workflows: the extension automatically parses parameters, inputs, and outputs for referenced actions and called reusable workflows for code-completion and validation.

Getting started

1. Install the extension from the Marketplace. 1. Sign in with your GitHub account and when prompted allow GitHub Actions access to your GitHub account. 1. Open a GitHub repository. 1. You will be able to utilize the syntax features in Workflow files, and you can find the GitHub Actions icon on the left navigation to manage your Workflows.

Supported Features

• Manage your workflows and runs • Edit workflows (syntax highlighting, auto-completion, hovering, and validation) • Keep track of your CI builds and deployments • Investigate failures and view logs • Modify settings like Environments, Secrets, and Variables

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to support the extension with remote repositories (including github.dev and vscode.dev), so please use the extension with locally downloaded GitHub repositories for the best experience. Please check back here for updates in the future!

We have enabled experimental functionality to support GitHub Enterprise Server, but this feature is an experimental beta and currently unsupported. To try this out, enable the use-enterprise setting to authenticate with your GitHub Enterprise Server Authentication Provider settings

We currently do not have the capability to support Operating System (OS) certificates or enterprise proxies (we plan to support pulling from the VS Code proxy settings), but we have plans for it in the future and it is on our backlog!

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md. A description of the architecture of the extension can be found here.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT open source license. Please refer to MIT for the full terms.

Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • debuggers
  • GitHub Actions Workflow
  • github-actions-workflow

Where GitHub Actions sits in the listing

Each band is one page of 20. Installs on a log scale. Placement is projected from installs, so it can differ from the marketplace's own sort order. Hover a dot to see the listing.

All VS Code Marketplace2,500 listings · 125 pages · page 6, #11 (overall #111)
All VS Code Marketplace: every listing in installs order
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Other761 listings · 39 pages · page 2, #6 (overall #26)
Other: every listing in installs order
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Charts

Images: 30d · 1y · all time · 1600×900 dark

Adoption over time

GitHub Actions installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 8,793,902 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.GitHub ActionsInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days8,793,902installs8.8M8.8M8.8M8.8M8.8M8.8M8.8M8.8MJul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
GitHub Actions installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 8,793,902 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

GitHub Actions installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.GitHub ActionsInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace8,793,902installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
GitHub Actions installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

GitHub Actions VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #111 (by installs).GitHub ActionsVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#111current rank#109#110#111#112#113Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
GitHub Actions VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #111 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

GitHub Actions ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 64 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.GitHub ActionsRatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days64ratings565860626466687072Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
GitHub Actions ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 64 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (3)
Recent installs observations for GitHub Actions
Date (UTC)InstallsChange vs. previous
8,793,902+2K
8,791,910+4.3K
8,787,564—

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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=GitHub.vscode-github-actions. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.