Tracking github search results?

[vjeux]

Omry just showed me this tool and it’s awesome! Great job (good call rewriting it to react ;))

I was wondering if you would be able to do a variation where you could track number of github search results over time. This would be super helpful to track the external growth of a project in terms of actual usage, less promotional behavior (stars).

Thanks!

[seladb]

What do you mean by github search results? Is it available through github API?

[vjeux]

Not really sure how to get the data, but here's a search query: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=hydra.main%28config_path&s=indexed&type=Code

Would be great to have a graph of the number of results over time.

[seladb]

looks like github does have the API for it: https://developer.github.com/v3/search/

This might be a good idea, but probably for a later phase of the project. Your ask requires a backend process to run the query every day and a database to store the results.

Currently there is no backend at all, so that requires some work 😃

Once a backend is built I have more ideas of how to use it, for example:

• track stars that are being remove from a project (this information is not available today by github)
• track downloads per day
• track traffic to you project for longer than 14 days (basically integrate with github-traffic-stats)
• and more...