GitHub Popular Searches

A Postman collection to discover popular repositories on GitHub for a given search query. It sends the popular repository on Slack channel.

This collection is published here.

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How does it work?

• Put a search query for GitHub Repositories

• Fetch GitHub Repo URLs through API call to NPM

• Collect all the comments, download count, stars count, fork count from GitHub API

• Perform Sentiment Analysis on Comments

• Suggest best available repository for given search term on Slack

Set the following environment variables before you run this collection :

• {{searchTerm}} : the query you want to search
• {{maxSize}} : maximum number of repositories you want to fetch

It sends the popular repository on Slack channel using webhook.

This collection uses Github API to fetch comments and sends a report to an internal Slack channel using a webhook.

API Calls made

1. GET npm search - API call to NPM to fetch the popular GitHub Repositories for a given search query.

http://registry.npmjs.com/-/v1/search?text={{searchTerm}}&size={{maxSize}}

2. GET fetch comments - Fetching comments for each repositories using GitHub API.

https://api.github.com/repos/{{userName}}/{{repoName}}/comments  

• {{repoName}} : Name of the GitHub repository
• {{userName}} : GitHub username for the given repository

3. POST calculate sentiments - Calculating sentiment using ParallelDots API for the comments of given GitHub repository.

https://apis.paralleldots.com/v3/sentiment?text={{sentimentText}}&api_key={{apiKey}}

4. POST push to slack - Pushing most popular repos to Slack using webhook.

https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXXXXXXX

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