Gustavo Pinto gustavopinto

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

The hottest repositories created in the last week.
The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
Issue trends by language.
Clojure projects defying convention.

This is more complex than necessary.

GitHub webhooks for a URL by default only fire on repo pushes. There appears to be no way in the web UI to set up webhooks for other events. And so we go to the API. I prefer to do this type of thing with Hurl.

POST to https://api.github.com/repos/:username/:repo/hooks

{
  "name": "web",
 "active": true,

	# Copyright (c) 2013 Georgios Gousios
	# MIT-licensed

	create database stackoverflow DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;

	use stackoverflow;

	create table badges (
	Id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
	UserId INT,

	PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\w$(__git_ps1 "\[\033[0;31m\](%s)")\[\033[00m\]\$ '

	alias branch='git br \| grep "" \| sed "s/\ //"'
	alias gc='git commit -v'
	alias gs='git status'
	alias gp='git push origin `branch`'
	alias gl='git pull origin `branch`'
	alias grl='git pull --rebase origin `branch`'
	alias ga='git add'
	alias gb='git branch'