https://github.com/abranhe/popular-repos

Get the most popular public repositories from a user ✨
https://github.com/abranhe/popular-repos

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Get the most popular public repositories from a user ✨

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/abranhe/popular-repos
• Owner: abranhe
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-09-26T17:09:45.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-09-27T14:58:03.000Z (almost 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-28T10:09:33.130Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: popular, repos
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://projects.abranhe.com/popular-repos
• Size: 8.79 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Overview

It returns the most popular repositories (sorted by startgazers) of a user along with some metadata. The result is cached for a day.

# Usage

[![Deploy to now](https://deploy.now.sh/static/button.svg)](https://deploy.now.sh/?repo=https://github.com/abranhe/popular-repos&env=GITHUB_TOKEN&env=GITHUB_USERNAME&env=ACCESS_ALLOW_ORIGIN&env=MAX_REPOS&env=CACHE_MAX_AGE)

or

```

$ now abranhe/popular-repos -e NODE_ENV=production -e GITHUB_TOKEN=xxx -e GITHUB_USERNAME=xxx -e ACCESS_ALLOW_ORIGIN=xxx -e MAX_REPOS=xxx -e CACHE_MAX_AGE=xxx

```

Deploy to your hosting provider, set the below environment variables, and start it with `npm start`.

## Environment variables

Define the following environment variables:

- `GITHUB_TOKEN` - [Personal access token.](https://github.com/settings/tokens/new?description=popular-repos)

- `GITHUB_USERNAME` - The username you like to get repos from.

- `ACCESS_ALLOW_ORIGIN` - The URL of your website or `*` if you want to allow any origin (not recommended), for the `Access-Control-Allow-Origin` header.

- `MAX_REPOS` - The number of repos returned. Optional. Defaults to 8.

- `CACHE_MAX_AGE` - The maximum age for client cache-control in seconds. Optional. Defaults to 300 (5 minutes).

# Related

> it wouldn't be possible without [gh-latest-repos](https://github.com/sindresorhus/gh-latest-repos)👏

- [gh-latest-repos](https://github.com/sindresorhus/gh-latest-repos): Microservice to get the latest public GitHub repos from a user.

# Team

|[![Carlos Abraham Logo](https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/21347264?s=50&v=4)](https://19cah.com)|

| :-: |

| [Carlos Abraham](https://github.com/abranhe) |

# License

[MIT](https://github.com/abranhe/popular-repos/blob/master/LICENSE) License © [Carlos Abraham](https://github.com/abranhe)