findstar

Findstar is a Python CLI utility to quickly retrieve a repository that you starred on GitHub.

You can search through every user's starred repositories for keywords, kind of like grep.

Installation

Clone the repo and install requirements.

git clone https://github.com/thbzzz/findstar.git
cd findstar
pip3 install --user -r requirements.txt

Usage

usage: findstar.py [-h] -u USERNAME [-f] [-s] [-a] [greps [greps ...]]

Grep over your github starred repositories!

positional arguments:
  greps                 strings to grep for

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -u USERNAME, --username USERNAME
                        github username
  -f, --flush           refresh cache
  -s, --case-sensitive  match greps case-sensitively
  -a, --and             match greps using AND instead of OR

At first run with each username, its starred repositories are fetched from the GitHub's API, and cached in the file cache/{username} as zlib-compressed json data.

Next times you run findstar.py -u {username}, the default behavior is to get the starred repos list from the username's cache file. You can however force fetching stars from GitHub's API by adding the -f flag.

Examples

findstar.py -u thbzzz kerberos
findstar.py -u thbzzz active directory
findstar.py -u thbzzz -a active directory
findstar.py -u thbzzz -s -a Active Directory
findstar.py -u thbzzz -f -s -a Active Directory CVE

Todo

• Search inside repos' names
• Search by repo name/description/readme only

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome.

Authors and acknowledgment

The original idea is from switch, with starscrawler. I reimplemented the concept with a more maintanable code base.

License

The Unlicense