See http://mackerron.com/webdev/ for an example of the widget in action.
It lets you show an up-to-date list of one or more users' GitHub repositories on another webpage.
It pulls the data from the GitHub JSON-P API, builds some simple HTML from it, and styles this with CSS.
It ignores: forks; any GitHub home page repo (username.github.com); and any repo with no description. It sorts what's left by descending number of watchers (now 'stars').
It works back to IE6 (though some of the styling is ugly there, and it's not super-relevant, given that GitHub doesn't).
It's less than 3KB minified, and has no dependencies.
If you have git installed, go to your website's root folder and paste in:
git clone https://github.com/jawj/github-widget.git
Alternatively, you can download an up-to-date ZIP file from https://github.com/jawj/github-widget/zipball/master.
To the <head> of the page, add:
<link href="github-widget/github-widget.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
At any page location where you want to show a GitHub repository, paste in:
<div class="github-widget" data-user="some-github-username"></div>
Replacing the value of the data-user attribute with an actual GitHub username.
You may include additional options in the form of a JSON hash in an attribute called data-options
and the following options are currently supported: sortBy, limit, and forks.
<div class="github-widget" data-user="some-github-username" data-options='{"sortBy":"stargazers_count", "limit":6}'></div>
Finally, immediately before the closing </body> tag, add:
<script src="github-widget/github-widget.min.js"></script>
Edit the CSS file as you desire.