Possible to get top 10,000 or more by language? Rank by downloads?

[erwin]

Hello,

I'm interested in a list of the top 10,000 or maybe even 100,000 projects, mostly just for ASM, C, C++, Golang, the stuff I'm most interested in... I want to find new projects instead of waiting for so long to hear about them... Also, is it possible to rank by downloads?

I'm fine to implement myself if you're not interested in adding this to your top chart, but if you could give me any tips that would be awesome.

Most important:

1. how quickly can I poll github from 1 IP without hitting rate 10 requests per minute rate limit?
2. do you have to use multiple IPs to run your script each day?
3. how do you get an index of all github projects to start spydering? How do you keep this list updated?