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Show HN: A graph of the languages you use on Github

35 points by aaronpk 15y ago

willvarfar 15y ago
Neat looking but I couldn't work out how it could be so wrong about my williame account
- aaronpk 15y ago
  What's wrong about it? It's finding a bunch of C code in this repo: https://api.github.com/repos/williame/GlestNG/languages https://api.github.com/repos/williame/GlestNG/languages. I just realized that it won't take in to account the difference between a repo you created and one you cloned, it counts both equally.
  - udp 15y ago
    > between a repo you created and one you cloned Forked, you mean.
    - aaronpk 15y ago
      yes. oops
  - willvarfar 15y ago
    aha, so its a github bug then?
samirahmed 15y ago
This is really neat. One suggestion would be to have a visible and accessible back button or search again button. Since going back doesn't take you to the home screen, I need to refresh to get back to the search option
- aaronpk 15y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion! I added a "start over" button.
  - caseorganic 15y ago
    Thanks! I wanted to request that too.
th0ma5 15y ago
I got different results each time, not in the numbers, but in the rendering of the graph. Anyway for a permalink or somesuch that I can send to people? Otherwise rather nice! :D
- aaronpk 15y ago
  Yea I was thinking about making a permalink for it, but it's implemented entirely client-side so I don't think I have an easy way to do that. Feel free to fork it on github if you can figure it out: https://github.com/aaronpk/Github-Language-Graph https://github.com/aaronpk/Github-Language-Graph
  - th0ma5 15y ago
    there's jquery libs for bookmark and history manipulation, you've seen this, it is the url path like stuff after a # in a url... javascript basically can sniff that, like anchor tag bookmarks. sort of a hack for sure! but very common, eg: twitter.
  - jawngee 15y ago
    I sent you a pull request that uses hash tags.
    - aaronpk 15y ago
      Awesome! Merged it in and updated the site. Thanks!
gukjoon 15y ago
Very neat. How does this treat forks? Does it consider only the commits you make?
- aaronpk 15y ago
  Unfortunately it counts all code on your account equally. Github has a nice API that returns byte-count per language for a repository: https://api.github.com/repos/aaronpk/Flickr-Archiver/languages https://api.github.com/repos/aaronpk/Flickr-Archiver/languag... I was thinking about excluding forks, or showing them in a separate graph.
  - strager 15y ago
    I'd like that. My forks of a few C++ projects brings C++ to over 50%, but I barely use C++ in my own projects. =]
gukjoon 15y ago
Very neat. How does this treat forks? Does it consider only the commits you make?
mrvim 15y ago
Awesome interface. Very cool.
- deleted 15y ago
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infincia 15y ago
I was a bit shocked to see numbers like this: http://i.imgur.com/2ayTD.png http://i.imgur.com/2ayTD.png But then I realized there are a ton of libraries included in some of those repos, so for languages or platforms where it's common to include 3rd party libraries in the tree (obj-c is a big one, appengine too and i hit both :), you'll get all that stuff counted by the github API too. Nice little tool though, good work :)
tzs 15y ago
How is it counting? For me (tzs on Github) it says I have this many lines: 2038 JavaScript 43274 Lua 17425 Perl If I count up the heads of all my repositories, just going by lines in the file to maximize the counts (i.e., not filtering out whitespace or comments, and counting mixed HTML/JavaScript as all JavaScript) I get numbers more like this: 1000 JavaScript 1100 Lua 600 Perl
- aaronpk 15y ago
  My mistake! Apparently the counts that come back from the Github api are bytes, not lines. http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages You can see an example of an API call for one of your repositories: https://api.github.com/repos/tzs/Reddit-Math-Display-for-Safari/languages https://api.github.com/repos/tzs/Reddit-Math-Display-for-Saf...
  - xyzzyb 15y ago
    This is one instance where the github documentation is lacking. Actually their entire API documentation site could use some serious attention.
kingkilr 15y ago
So yeah, code. Python 7308374 JavaScript 1247179 Shell 12761 C 5939
- mkramlich 15y ago
  I like your taste in languages. That mix will realistically let you do 99% of the things you'd want, almost all roles and use cases, well. Not a coincidence, that's the mix I've settled on too. :)
kibwen 15y ago
For a fun time, check out some of the statistics for large organizations with Github accounts (e.g. Joyent, Mozilla), or simply bask in the monochromatic majesty of Torvalds. Does anyone know where the source for this data is? I was poking around in Github's API for this sort of thing just last week, with no luck.
- xyzzyb 15y ago
  It's making a couple of calls: 1) grab the list of repos for the given user, 2) use the "List languages" call to the github repo API to pull in the language data for each repo. http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/ http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/
mbetter 15y ago
From the given numbers, my account (mbetter) is about 40% Haskell, 36% Javascript and 24% Python. The graph never shows this - sometimes it shows 58% Haskell, 42% Javascript and other times it shows 100% Python.
alptrv 15y ago
Cool. But I assume it only looks to user's public repositories? Would be nice to see a graph with private repos. Don't know if it would be possible with Github's API
- jwarzech 15y ago
  I'd imagine that with most paid accounts the private repos are also the largest. I know my stats would we be completely different if it included those.
- aaronpk 15y ago
  Yes, it only looks at public repositories. It wouldn't be hard to look at private ones but it would require the user to OAuth so the app has access. But I'm not sure if Github supports using OAuth entirely in Javascript (like https://developers.geoloqi.com/client-libraries/Javascript https://developers.geoloqi.com/client-libraries/Javascript) so then it would require a server-side backend to handle the login.
alpb 15y ago
That's pretty inaccurate. So I forked Linux kernel and changed nothing. Now I'm a 99.9% C developer. Cool.
ohyes 15y ago
Language Bytes Clojure 6731 JavaScript 9778 Erlang 13858 Common Lisp 584550 Emacs Lisp 2489 What do I win Bob??

35 points by aaronpk 15y ago

willvarfar 15y ago

Neat looking but I couldn't work out how it could be so wrong about my williame account

aaronpk 15y ago
What's wrong about it? It's finding a bunch of C code in this repo: https://api.github.com/repos/williame/GlestNG/languages https://api.github.com/repos/williame/GlestNG/languages. I just realized that it won't take in to account the difference between a repo you created and one you cloned, it counts both equally.
- udp 15y ago
  > between a repo you created and one you cloned Forked, you mean.
  - aaronpk 15y ago
    yes. oops
- willvarfar 15y ago
  aha, so its a github bug then?

samirahmed 15y ago

This is really neat. One suggestion would be to have a visible and accessible back button or search again button. Since going back doesn't take you to the home screen, I need to refresh to get back to the search option

aaronpk 15y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I added a "start over" button.
- caseorganic 15y ago
  Thanks! I wanted to request that too.

th0ma5 15y ago

I got different results each time, not in the numbers, but in the rendering of the graph. Anyway for a permalink or somesuch that I can send to people? Otherwise rather nice! :D

aaronpk 15y ago
Yea I was thinking about making a permalink for it, but it's implemented entirely client-side so I don't think I have an easy way to do that. Feel free to fork it on github if you can figure it out: https://github.com/aaronpk/Github-Language-Graph https://github.com/aaronpk/Github-Language-Graph
- th0ma5 15y ago
  there's jquery libs for bookmark and history manipulation, you've seen this, it is the url path like stuff after a # in a url... javascript basically can sniff that, like anchor tag bookmarks. sort of a hack for sure! but very common, eg: twitter.
- jawngee 15y ago
  I sent you a pull request that uses hash tags.
  - aaronpk 15y ago
    Awesome! Merged it in and updated the site. Thanks!

gukjoon 15y ago

Very neat. How does this treat forks? Does it consider only the commits you make?

aaronpk 15y ago
Unfortunately it counts all code on your account equally. Github has a nice API that returns byte-count per language for a repository: https://api.github.com/repos/aaronpk/Flickr-Archiver/languages https://api.github.com/repos/aaronpk/Flickr-Archiver/languag... I was thinking about excluding forks, or showing them in a separate graph.
- strager 15y ago
  I'd like that. My forks of a few C++ projects brings C++ to over 50%, but I barely use C++ in my own projects. =]

gukjoon 15y ago

Very neat. How does this treat forks? Does it consider only the commits you make?

mrvim 15y ago

Awesome interface. Very cool.

deleted 15y ago
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infincia 15y ago

I was a bit shocked to see numbers like this: http://i.imgur.com/2ayTD.png http://i.imgur.com/2ayTD.png But then I realized there are a ton of libraries included in some of those repos, so for languages or platforms where it's common to include 3rd party libraries in the tree (obj-c is a big one, appengine too and i hit both :), you'll get all that stuff counted by the github API too. Nice little tool though, good work :)

tzs 15y ago

How is it counting? For me (tzs on Github) it says I have this many lines: 2038 JavaScript 43274 Lua 17425 Perl If I count up the heads of all my repositories, just going by lines in the file to maximize the counts (i.e., not filtering out whitespace or comments, and counting mixed HTML/JavaScript as all JavaScript) I get numbers more like this: 1000 JavaScript 1100 Lua 600 Perl

aaronpk 15y ago
My mistake! Apparently the counts that come back from the Github api are bytes, not lines. http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/#list-languages You can see an example of an API call for one of your repositories: https://api.github.com/repos/tzs/Reddit-Math-Display-for-Safari/languages https://api.github.com/repos/tzs/Reddit-Math-Display-for-Saf...
- xyzzyb 15y ago
  This is one instance where the github documentation is lacking. Actually their entire API documentation site could use some serious attention.

kingkilr 15y ago

So yeah, code. Python 7308374 JavaScript 1247179 Shell 12761 C 5939

mkramlich 15y ago
I like your taste in languages. That mix will realistically let you do 99% of the things you'd want, almost all roles and use cases, well. Not a coincidence, that's the mix I've settled on too. :)

kibwen 15y ago

For a fun time, check out some of the statistics for large organizations with Github accounts (e.g. Joyent, Mozilla), or simply bask in the monochromatic majesty of Torvalds. Does anyone know where the source for this data is? I was poking around in Github's API for this sort of thing just last week, with no luck.

xyzzyb 15y ago
It's making a couple of calls: 1) grab the list of repos for the given user, 2) use the "List languages" call to the github repo API to pull in the language data for each repo. http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/ http://developer.github.com/v3/repos/

mbetter 15y ago

From the given numbers, my account (mbetter) is about 40% Haskell, 36% Javascript and 24% Python. The graph never shows this - sometimes it shows 58% Haskell, 42% Javascript and other times it shows 100% Python.

alptrv 15y ago

Cool. But I assume it only looks to user's public repositories? Would be nice to see a graph with private repos. Don't know if it would be possible with Github's API

jwarzech 15y ago
I'd imagine that with most paid accounts the private repos are also the largest. I know my stats would we be completely different if it included those.
aaronpk 15y ago
Yes, it only looks at public repositories. It wouldn't be hard to look at private ones but it would require the user to OAuth so the app has access. But I'm not sure if Github supports using OAuth entirely in Javascript (like https://developers.geoloqi.com/client-libraries/Javascript https://developers.geoloqi.com/client-libraries/Javascript) so then it would require a server-side backend to handle the login.

alpb 15y ago

That's pretty inaccurate. So I forked Linux kernel and changed nothing. Now I'm a 99.9% C developer. Cool.

ohyes 15y ago

Language Bytes Clojure 6731 JavaScript 9778 Erlang 13858 Common Lisp 584550 Emacs Lisp 2489 What do I win Bob??