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Show HN: Trending GitHub Repos by Language with Grapevine

6 points by benbjohnson ↗ HN
I have a hard time finding new, awesome open source repositories on GitHub for the languages I use. So I decided to scratch an itch.

My project is called Grapevine. It aggregates mentions of GitHub repos on Twitter and filters them by language. I'm aggregating the top 15 languages on GitHub right now.

Some of the languages include JavaScript (@github_js), Ruby (@github_rb), Python (@github_py), Emacs Lisp (@github_el), and Haskell (@github_hs).

If you want to know more, here's the project's site.

http://grapevine-project.info

Let me know what you think!

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mrlase
Very nice :) I'm following @github_js as I use js with node primarily. I've also been trying to find new and interesting repos, but Github doesn't offer much other than the trending and most watched/forked sadly...

Can you explain how the platform behind it?

benbjohnson
Thanks for following!

As for the platform, Grapevine is a modular platform that will pull in messages, group them into topics and then periodically send out a notification for the most popular topic. Topics are limited by a window so topics can't be repeated again for, say, six months.

Check out the project on GitHub. It's a Ruby project. Feel free to send a pull request or add a feature request. I'm also looking for other sites to pull messages from. Other people have suggested Google Groups, Convore & IRC.

johns
If you want getgrapevine.com let me know (see profile)