Contribution levels from Git

"Ideally contribution level from git would be used. I think this would be 10x the work."

Damn, talk about a perfect hook. You really know how to get an engineer to work on a problem. You should consider starting a tech company, or something 😉

This might not be too difficult. It looks like crates.repository specifies a full repository URL such as https://github.com/rust-lang/rust. In that example, rust-lang is the owner and rust is the repository, which should be easily parseable, especially for throwaway code.

From there it would just be a GET https://api.github.com/repos/{owner}/{repository}/contributors. The easiest way to authenticate would be using Basic Authentication. For GH, just concat your username:password, base64 encode it, and throw it in an Authorization header. e.g.,

curl --location --request GET 'https://api.github.com/repos/beatty/rustaceanrank/contributors' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic: base64(markrmullan:scrubbed)'

[
    {
        "login": "beatty",
        "id": 101126,
        "node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjEwMTEyNg==",
        "avatar_url": "https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/101126?v=4",
        "gravatar_id": "",
        "url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty",
        "html_url": "https://github.com/beatty",
        "followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/followers",
        "following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/following{/other_user}",
        "gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/gists{/gist_id}",
        "starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
        "subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/subscriptions",
        "organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/orgs",
        "repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/repos",
        "events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/events{/privacy}",
        "received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/beatty/received_events",
        "type": "User",
        "site_admin": false,
        "contributions": 2
    }
]

A Github contribution includes actions like commenting on a PR and not just commits. The response is sorted in descending order by number of contributions for the repository, which feels awfully convenient for this project. Give it a shot with https://api.github.com/repos/rust-lang/rust/contributors. The bots that massively pad their own commit numbers, such as https://github.com/bors, should be easily identifiable for exclusion. The Gitlab et al. repos would be a different story, SELECT repository FROM crates WHERE repository NOT LIKE 'https://github.com/%' LIMIT 100;, but it feels like Github alone should expand your awesome-human-candidate-pool by quite a bit, if it's worth investing a little more time.

Avatars and everything? You've really undersold your design skills.

beatty / rustaceanrank

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