- View the latest report on nbviewer
- See the historical count data in a CSV
- Play with the data yourself:
A brief history of this project:
- Late-2014 to mid-2016: I wrote a script that scrapes the GitHub web search UI for the count, appends to a CSV, executes a notebook, and stores the results in a gist at https://gist.github.com/parente/facb555dfbae28e817e0. I scheduled the script to run daily.
- Mid-2106 to Late-2016: The GitHub web search UI started requiring authentication to see global search results. I stopped collecting data.
- Late-2016 to early-2019: I rewrote the process to include a human-in-the-loop who entered the hit count after viewing the search results page. I moved the CSV, notebook, and scripts to this repo, and sporadically ran the script.
- Early-2019: I found out that the GitHub search API now supports global search. I automated the entire collection process again and set it to run on TravisCI on a daily schedule.