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Re: Code Search API

#21

Post by arikrak » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 8:30 PM UTC

archivator wrote: post #20

To me, Github search is kinda useless. When I search for anything Android related (i.e. usage search for some framework type), I get a billion copies of the main Android source. The signal to noise ratio is almost 0..

You can filter the repo results by their number of stars and forks.

Re: Code Search API

#22

Post by boyter » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 10:19 PM UTC

Interesting. Will have to look into integrating this with searchcode.com

My biggest issue with github search is it still has issues with searches like $i++ as it will not match something like for(i=0;i++;ihttp://searchcode.com/?q=i%2B%2B vs https://github.com/search?q=i%2B%2B&type=Code&ref=searchresu...

Re: Code Search API

#23

Post by arafalov » Fri, Jul 19, 2013, 11:28 PM UTC

I want to search by filename but also limit by repository's stars or similar.

Re: Code Search API

#24

Post by eli » Sun, Jul 21, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

extempo wrote: post #18

eli wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I want automated bots contacting me through github.

Malicious bots don't care if there is an API. They can screen scrape easily.

I'm sure malicious bots do try to mass message repository owners through Github. It's called spam and every platform over a certain size experiences it. I expect Github already has measures in place to block it.