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Get a HotRepo monthly report: the repositories that gained the most stars on the daily trending board during a month, the most notable new repositories, and leaders per topic, with an editorial introduction.
Language of reviews and topic names
YYYY-MM (a finished UTC month); omit for the latest report
Get a HotRepo monthly report: the repositories that gained the most stars on the daily trending board during a month, the most notable new repositories, and leaders per topic, with an editorial introduction.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lang | string | Language of reviews and topic names |
| month | any | YYYY-MM (a finished UTC month); omit for the latest report |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_monthly_reportArguments",
"properties": {
"lang": {
"enum": [
"en",
"zh"
],
"type": "string",
"title": "Lang",
"default": "en",
"description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
},
"month": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Month",
"default": null,
"description": "YYYY-MM (a finished UTC month); omit for the latest report"
}
}
}Read HotRepo's full review of a repository (Markdown), with its stats, topic, daily trending history and Hacker News threads that link to it. Only repositories that have trended and been reviewed are available.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lang | string | Language of reviews and topic names |
| full_name* | string | GitHub repository as owner/repo (a github.com URL also works) |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_repoArguments",
"required": [
"full_name"
],
"properties": {
"lang": {
"enum": [
"en",
"zh"
],
"type": "string",
"title": "Lang",
"default": "en",
"description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
},
"full_name": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Full Name",
"description": "GitHub repository as owner/repo (a github.com URL also works)"
}
}
}List reviewed repositories in one topic, most recently trending first.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lang | string | Language of reviews and topic names |
| slug* | string | Topic slug from list_topics |
| limit | integer |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_topicArguments",
"required": [
"slug"
],
"properties": {
"lang": {
"enum": [
"en",
"zh"
],
"type": "string",
"title": "Lang",
"default": "en",
"description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
},
"slug": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Slug",
"maxLength": 40,
"description": "Topic slug from list_topics"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"title": "Limit",
"default": 30,
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 1
}
}
}Get a HotRepo trending board: the repositories on GitHub Trending (or HotRepo's new-repository board) for one UTC day, ranked by stars gained in the period, each with HotRepo's one-line review when available.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | any | UTC day YYYY-MM-DD; omit for the latest board |
| lang | string | Language of reviews and topic names |
| period | string | daily/weekly/monthly = GitHub Trending for that window; new = HotRepo's board of repositories created in the last 14 days, ranked by average stars per day |
| language | string | Programming-language board slug such as 'python', 'typescript', 'rust'. Empty string = all languages |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "get_trendingArguments",
"properties": {
"date": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Date",
"default": null,
"description": "UTC day YYYY-MM-DD; omit for the latest board"
},
"lang": {
"enum": [
"en",
"zh"
],
"type": "string",
"title": "Lang",
"default": "en",
"description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
},
"period": {
"enum": [
"daily",
"weekly",
"monthly",
"new"
],
"type": "string",
"title": "Period",
"default": "daily",
"description": "daily/weekly/monthly = GitHub Trending for that window; new = HotRepo's board of repositories created in the last 14 days, ranked by average stars per day"
},
"language": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Language",
"default": "",
"description": "Programming-language board slug such as 'python', 'typescript', 'rust'. Empty string = all languages"
}
}
}List HotRepo's topics (each reviewed project belongs to exactly one, by what it helps people do) with the number of reviewed projects in each.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lang | string | Language of reviews and topic names |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "list_topicsArguments",
"properties": {
"lang": {
"enum": [
"en",
"zh"
],
"type": "string",
"title": "Lang",
"default": "en",
"description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
}
}
}Search repositories that HotRepo has reviewed, newest reviews first. Use get_repo for the full review.
| Argument | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lang | string | Language of reviews and topic names |
| limit | integer | |
| query | string | Keywords matched against repository name, HotRepo's one-line review and GitHub topics; every word must match. Empty = newest reviews |
| topic | any | Topic slug from list_topics to filter by |
{
"type": "object",
"title": "search_reposArguments",
"properties": {
"lang": {
"enum": [
"en",
"zh"
],
"type": "string",
"title": "Lang",
"default": "en",
"description": "Language of reviews and topic names"
},
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"title": "Limit",
"default": 20,
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"title": "Query",
"default": "",
"maxLength": 200,
"description": "Keywords matched against repository name, HotRepo's one-line review and GitHub topics; every word must match. Empty = newest reviews"
},
"topic": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"title": "Topic",
"default": null,
"description": "Topic slug from list_topics to filter by"
}
}
}