How can I find the latest commit from forked repos on github?

Question

For example I find a framework that is not maintained anymore but lots of forks. I want to see the more recent forks only. Network Graph is not available if its large.

Answer 1

I was looking for the same thing, and came across the following website that will list all forks, and latest commit date, stars, forks, issues, etc. A little annoying that GitHub themselves don't offer this (other than via commandline or their API).

https://techgaun.github.io/active-forks/index.html

Alternatively, you can use the following website:

http://gitpop2.herokuapp.com/

I am not affiliated with either.

Answer 2

You can do it with a curl:

curl -X GET https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repo>/forks

For instance, the angular forks are:

curl -X GET https://api.github.com/repos/angular/angular/forks

You can add a sort parameter ?sort=<oldest|newest|stargazers>, but the default one is the newest.