Plagiarism checker on Pull Requests

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Plagiarism checker on Pull Requests

sahilbansal17 opened this issue 5 years ago · comments

This repository is getting a lot of PRs where the code is being copied from Geeksforgeeks or other platforms.

It would be nice if we can use some Plagiarism checker API or make a custom tool to see if the PR's code is copied from somewhere by checking some of the keywords along with the code.

For. eg. a code of binary search can be compared with similar codes on GFG, HackerEarth, etc. and a plagiarism score can be assigned to the PR.

Vyshak Puthusseri · Answer 1 · Sat Oct 12 2019 21:23:18 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This repository is getting a lot of PRs where the code is being copied from Geeksforgeeks or other platforms.

It would be nice if we can use some Plagiarism checker API or make a custom tool to see if the PR's code is copied from somewhere by checking some of the keywords along with the code.

For. eg. a code of binary search can be compared with similar codes on GFG, HackerEarth, etc. and a plagiarism score can be assigned to the PR.

Could you please explain how can we implement this concept.

Sahil Bansal · Answer 2 · Tue Oct 22 2019 01:10:47 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This repository is getting a lot of PRs where the code is being copied from Geeksforgeeks or other platforms.
It would be nice if we can use some Plagiarism checker API or make a custom tool to see if the PR's code is copied from somewhere by checking some of the keywords along with the code.
For. eg. a code of binary search can be compared with similar codes on GFG, HackerEarth, etc. and a plagiarism score can be assigned to the PR.

Could you please explain how can we implement this concept.

@puthusseri I am also not completely sure about it. We need to see if there are any Open APIs related to this that can help.

Harsh Raj · Answer 3 · Sun Oct 27 2019 12:37:23 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This might help, though I am not sure how to automate this for pr (but for plagarisms we can have codes from popular websites stored locally rather than scrapping every time a pr is made and then checking for plagarism). @sahilbansal17 let me know if you have some suggestions on how to automate this thing for pr. The issue seems very interesting and I want to work on it.