Tiny GitHub Searcher 🚀

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🧐 About

A tiny GitHub searcher using the GitHub API. No authentication required. Nothing fancy, just a tiny searcher that allows you to search for GitHub repositories given a set of keywords and returns a CSV file with the results. Simple parser and filterer included.

📖 How to use

1. Clone the repository 💻

   git clone https://github.com/wdika/tiny-github-searcher.git

2. Install dependencies ⚙️

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the searcher 🏃

   python src/searcher.py {keywords}

   This will take long time, since it will search for all the repositories that match the keywords given. It also halts for 5 minutes when getting a 403 error, to escape the GitHub API rate limit. Please be patient.
4. Enjoy the results! 😃

🛠️ Optional Steps

1. Clean the results 🔍

   python src/cleaner.py results/github_repositories_overall.csv

   This will clean the results file, removing duplicates and removing dead repositories (those that return a 404 error when trying to access them). This will take a while, since it will try to access all the repositories that were found. Please be patient.
2. Parse the results 📝

   python src/parser.py results/github_repositories_overall_clean.csv

   This will parse the results file, extracting the About, Stars, Forks, Language and Keywords fields from every repository. This will take a while, since it will try to access all the repositories that were found. Please be patient.
3. Filter the results 📌

   python src/filterer.py results/github_repositories_overall_analytical.csv

   This will filter the parsed results file, removing empty, nans, false characters, etc from the About, Stars, Forks, Language and Keywords fields.
4. That's it! You can now use the results/github_repositories_overall_analytical_filtered.csv file to do whatever you want.

🌟 Full Running Example

./scripts/search_github_repositories.sh

📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

📧 Contact

If you have any question or suggestion, please do not hesitate to contact me at dimitriskarkalousos@gmail.com