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Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
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Re: Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
#12Nice project! Can you check the repos in GitLab too?
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#13Cool project - if you include dots in the name the DNS availability checks are inaccurate. If I search for "foo.io", it tells me that "foo.io.io" is available
Fixed - Thanks for pointing this out!
Re: Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
#14Kinda related I’ve used https://domainr.com/ for years
and a similar tool https://lab.xpaw.me/alldomainsearch.html
Re: Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
#15The code is here for those interested https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker
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#16Nice one; it works great! I would prefer it if the tool linked to the existing common domains instead of only showing the available ones. For my search,.org .org and .com are not available, and I wanted to look into what they are about.
Links to all results (not just domains) would be nice, too.
Added - good suggestion!
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#17How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. "hexagol" is taken according to your tool but using GitHub's search I only get 4 results which are all about projects named something with "hexagolang".
Should be fixed now. The GitHub endpoint for repos returns a list of possible matches and now they get filtered to fully equal the search input https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/e...
Re: Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
#18Nice project! Can you check the repos in GitLab too?
Thanks! - just added GitLab support
Re: Show HN: Name Checker – Find project name collisions
#19How is the GitHub check performed? I seem to get false positives where your tool reports that a project with that name exists on GitHub, but using GitHub's search I can only find projects that have the name as part of theirs. E.g. "hexagol" is taken according to your tool but using GitHub's search I only get 4 results which are all about projects named something with "hexagolang".
Should be fixed now. The GitHub endpoint for repos returns a list of possible matches and now they get filtered to fully equal the search input https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker/blob/main/app/api/e...
Great, thanks!