GitHub Repo Tracker

Grabs useful information from GitHub.

Command	Description
repo-stars	Provides an ordered list of the top repos on GitHub
repo-issues	Provides an ordered list of repos by issues
count-issues	Counts the number of issues matching a query

Usage

Make sure you have the Dart SDK installed (https://dart.dev).

Also make sure to grab the dependencies first:

cd path/to/github-tracker
dart pub get

You can get help on the available commands by running:

dart <command>.dart --help

Optionally, you can compile each command to native code by running, for instance:

dart compile exe repo-stars.dart -o repo-stars

repo-stars

The following command gives an ordered list of the top 10 repos on GitHub:

$ dart repo-stars.dart -n 10
  #  Repository             Stars
  1  vuejs/vue             185850
  2  facebook/react        171582
  3  tensorflow/tensorflow 157503
  4  twbs/bootstrap        151884
  5  ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh       130632
  6  flutter/flutter       124736
  7  microsoft/vscode      118892
  8  torvalds/linux        115122
  9  ytdl-org/youtube-dl    97779
 10  d3/d3                  97601

By default, the command excludes "content repos" (those that are primarily non-code, or where the code is primarily documentary rather than generative for a specific app or library target). GitHub has many good examples of this, but they're obviously a different kind of repo. Examples like: freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp, EbookFoundation/free-programming-books, kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap and others. This list is manually curated.

You can include content repos to the list with the --include-content-repos switch. For example:

$ dart repo-stars.dart --include-content-repos -n 5
  #  Repository                              Stars
  1  freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp              326292
  2  996icu/996.ICU                         257956
  3  EbookFoundation/free-programming-books 196945
  4  vuejs/vue                              185850
  5  jwasham/coding-interview-university    184430

If you'd prefer the data formatted as comma-separated-values, perhaps to append to a file to graph trends over time, you can use the --csv-output switch:

$ dart repo-stars.dart --csv-output -n 5
2021/07/19 09:00:09,1,vuejs/vue,185850
2021/07/19 09:00:09,2,facebook/react,171583
2021/07/19 09:00:09,3,tensorflow/tensorflow,157503
2021/07/19 09:00:09,4,twbs/bootstrap,151884
2021/07/19 09:00:09,5,ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh,130632

count-issues

count-issues returns the count of the number of issues given a repository and Github query at the current time in a comma-delimited format. For example:

$ dart count-issues.dart --repo flutter/flutter --filter is:open,is:issue,label:framework
2021/07/19 09:00:27, 4002

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @csells, @creativecreatorormaybenot and @kf6gpe for various contributions. And thanks to the amazing team of contributors behind the github package, who saved me a ton of work.