Search Repository Technology wise ?

[Shoaib19]

Select Topic Area

Show & Tell

Body

I am trying to find a way that I provide technology in api and GitHub return me repositories which are open source and belongs to that technology.

This will help users to find repositories to collaborate more quickly.

[Yamil-Serrano]

First, you can try to find or define repositories based on a specific technology you want to find. Some examples of filters we can use:

• Rust → language:rust
• Python → language:python

As far as I know, the GitHub API allows you to search for repositories with a query like this:

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:TECHNOLOGY+is:public

Example for Rust:

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:rust+is:public

If you want more results in a single request, you can add per_page=100:

https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:rust+is:public&per_page=100

If you want, you can write a simple script like this to get the results using an HTTP GET request in Python. Keep in mind that GitHub limits unauthenticated requests to 60 per hour. If you need more, you can use a GitHub token:

import requests

# Technology to search for
tech = "rust"
url = f"https://api.github.com/search/repositories?q=language:{tech}+is:public&per_page=100"

# Make the request to GitHub
response = requests.get(url, headers={'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json'})

# Check if the request was successful
if response.status_code == 200:
    data = response.json()
    for repo in data['items']:
        print(f"Name: {repo['nane']}")
        print(f"Description: {repo['description']}")
        print(f"URL: {repo['html_url']}")
        print(f"Stars: {repo['stargazers_count']} | Forks: {repo['forks_count']}")
        print('---')
else:
    print(f"Error: {response.status_code}")

To increase the request limit, you can authenticate with a personal access token.

1. Generate a personal access token from github
2. Add the token to your code, for example:

headers = {
    'Authorization': 'token YOUR_TOKEN_HERE',
    'Accept': 'application/vnd.github.v3+json'
}
response = requests.get(url, headers = headers)

This increases the limit to 5000 requests per hour.
Hope this helps you.