GitHunter

GitHunter is a tiny yet powerful crawler infra to collect OSS projects on GitHub. It queries GitHub search API and persist the data into the Postgres database.

Check here to know what the collected data is.

⚙️ Prerequisite

• Docker
• Golang
• PostgreSQL

💡 Dockerized PostgreSQL

To run a dockerized PostgreSQL, check this.

Start a postgres container, following the example command below:

$ docker run \
  --name postgres -d \
  --restart unless-stopped \
  -e POSTGRES_USER=ZJU-SEC \
  -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=<YOUR DB PASSWORD> \
  -e POSTGRES_DB=GitHunter \
  -p 5432:5432 postgres

📄 Make the Configurations

Prepare yourself a config.ini configuration according to config.ini.tmpl. Following is the configuration specification:

Name	Type	In	Description
WORKER	integer	APP	Maximum number of parallel workers
QUEUE_SIZE	integer	APP	Maximum number of parallel queue
LANGUAGE	string	APP	Targeted programming language
MIN_STAR	integer	APP	Minimum number of stars a repo gains
GITHUB_TOKEN	string	WEB	GitHub token to unlock API rate limit
TRYOUT	integer	WEB	Maximum number of retrying to request a page
HOST	string	DB	Database host address
USER	string	DB	Database user name
PASSWORD	string	DB	Database user password
DBNAME	string	DB	Database name
PORT	integer	DB	Database port

🛠️ Build

$ go build GitHunter

🚀 Run

To crawl the repositories' metadata:

$ ./GitHunter crawl

To clone the repositories:

$ ./GitHunter clone