billywhizz
7/23/2013 - 7:17 PM
5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API
5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API
Find the most commented issues in the past month
OK. OK. You were only expecting 5 examples. But since you read this far, here's a bonus one.
# We'll use the `date` command to get the date for "1 month ago"
$ date -v-1m '+%Y-%m-%d'
# => 2013-06-23
$ curl -G https://api.github.com/search/issues \
--data-urlencode "q=created:>`date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'`" \
--data-urlencode 'sort=comments' \
--data-urlencode 'order=desc' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview' \
| jq '.items[0,1,2] | {html_url, title, comments}'
I ran this a couple months ago, when we were first sketching out the search API. What did I find? A Pull Request to remove all press representatives from bitcoin.org. Followed by another Pull Request to counteract the first one.
Interesting times.
{
"comments": 158,
"title": "Remove press representatives",
"html_url": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/152"
}
{
"comments": 151,
"title": "Add several independent voices to the Press Center page",
"html_url": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin.org/issues/162"
}
{
"comments": 150,
"title": "Select and implement a template engine (or The issue to discuss everything Framework refactoring)",
"html_url": "https://github.com/joomla/jissues/issues/86"
}
Check out the Issue Search API docs for more details.
What does John Resig work on other than JavaScript?
$ curl -G https://api.github.com/search/repositories \
--data-urlencode 'q=@jeresig -language:javascript' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview' \
| jq '.items[] | {html_url, watchers_count, language, name}'
{
"name": "processing-js",
"language": "Java",
"watchers_count": 1455,
"html_url": "https://github.com/jeresig/processing-js"
}
{
"name": "selectortest",
"language": null,
"watchers_count": 12,
"html_url": "https://github.com/jeresig/selectortest"
}
{
"name": "wtpa-bot",
"language": "Perl",
"watchers_count": 9,
"html_url": "https://github.com/jeresig/wtpa-bot"
}
{
"name": "jeresig.github.com",
"language": null,
"watchers_count": 6,
"html_url": "https://github.com/jeresig/jeresig.github.com"
}
{
"name": "apples2artworks",
"language": "Python",
"watchers_count": 1,
"html_url": "https://github.com/jeresig/apples2artworks"
}
{
"name": "datacook",
"language": "Perl",
"watchers_count": 0,
"html_url": "https://github.com/jeresig/datacook"
}
@jeresig has a repo with zero people watching it? This changes my whole worldview.
Check out the Repository Search API docs for more details.
Find recently-indexed Clojure projects using an MIT license
Rebels! I bet these dudes don't like hammocks either.
$ curl -G https://api.github.com/search/code \
--data-urlencode 'q=MIT License path:project.clj' \
--data-urlencode 'sort=indexed' \
--data-urlencode 'order=desc' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview' \
| jq '.items[0,1,2] | {description: (.repository.description), name: (.repository.full_name), html_url}'
{
"html_url": "https://github.com/royvandewater/optparse/blob/e4bb8558405ffd7ba6a14718b89e7cd418b5565e/project.clj",
"name": "royvandewater/optparse",
"description": "Option parser for clojure"
}
{
"html_url": "https://github.com/SnootyMonkey/coming-soon/blob/108decfd74338ba5428580c8cd156f684484d3b2/project.clj",
"name": "SnootyMonkey/coming-soon",
"description": "coming-soon is a simple Clojure/ClojureScript/Redis 'landing page' application that takes just a few minute to setup"
}
{
"html_url": "https://github.com/rreas/ring-test/blob/5fd78404eec4f81033ae073c5a42ea8a55ccc75a/project.clj",
"name": "rreas/ring-test",
"description": "An integration test framework for ring web applications."
}
Check out the Code Search API docs for more details.
How many issues do Ruby developers create each day?
Track issue trends over time.
for i in {1..7}
do
created_on=`date -v-"${i}"d '+%Y-%m-%d'`
issue_count=$( \
curl -G https://api.github.com/search/issues \
--data-urlencode "q=language:ruby created:$created_on" \
-H "Authorization: token REDACTED" \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.preview" | jq ".total_count" \
)
echo "$created_on: $issue_count"
done
2013-07-22: 1174
2013-07-21: 716
2013-07-20: 687
2013-07-19: 1336
2013-07-18: 1348
2013-07-17: 1471
2013-07-16: 1386
Check out the Issue Search API docs for more details.
Find the oldest user accounts with zero followers
Go follow these poor souls.
$ curl -G https://api.github.com/search/users \
--data-urlencode 'q=followers:0' \
--data-urlencode 'sort=joined' \
--data-urlencode 'order=asc' \
-H 'Accept: application/vnd.github.preview' \
| jq '.items[0,1,2] | {html_url, login, id}'
{
"id": 30,
"login": "fanvsfan",
"html_url": "https://github.com/fanvsfan"
}
{
"id": 32,
"login": "railsjitsu",
"html_url": "https://github.com/railsjitsu"
}
{
"id": 44,
"login": "errfree",
"html_url": "https://github.com/errfree"
}
Check out the User Search API docs for more details.
Find the hottest repositories created in the last week
Keep an eye on the latest trending repos.
# We'll use the `date` command to get the date for "7 days ago"
$ date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'
# => 2013-07-15
$ curl -G https://api.github.com/search/repositories \
--data-urlencode "q=created:>`date -v-7d '+%Y-%m-%d'`" \
--data-urlencode "sort=stars" \
--data-urlencode "order=desc" \
-H "Accept: application/vnd.github.preview" \
| jq ".items[0,1,2] | {name, description, language, watchers_count, html_url}"
{
"html_url": "https://github.com/mame/quine-relay",
"watchers_count": 2492,
"language": "Ruby",
"description": "An uroboros program with 50 programming languages",
"name": "quine-relay"
}
{
"html_url": "https://github.com/jehna/VerbalExpressions",
"watchers_count": 483,
"language": "JavaScript",
"description": "JavaScript Regular expressions made easy",
"name": "VerbalExpressions"
}
{
"html_url": "https://github.com/applidium/ADTransitionController",
"watchers_count": 340,
"language": "Objective-C",
"description": "UINavigationController with custom transitions",
"name": "ADTransitionController"
}
Check out the Repository Search API docs for more details.
5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API
Let's have some command-line fun with curl, jq, and the new GitHub Search API.
Today we're looking for: