Intuitive way to view most active fork in GitHub [closed]

Question

This is a network graph of a GitHub repository:

There is no indication of which fork has the most stars and watchers. The commits may be simple updates to documentation files, for example.

Is there a way to evaluate forks in GitHub to determine which ones are more active/popular?

Answer 1

I don't know of one, but you could probably write one easily given the breadth of API wrappers out there. An example with github3.py would be

import github3  r = github3.repository('owner', 'repo_name') most_watched = next(r.iter_forks(sort='watchers', number=1)) 

As best I know, you cannot sort on stars and repositories don't have that information returned to them. You could, however, sort on forks but you would have to do it by hand.

The above example is two lines but you can achieve the same thing like so:

curl https://api.github.com/repos/owner/repo_name/forks?sort=watchers 

That won't limit how many results you get, though.