jasonrudolph

5 entertaining things you can find with the GitHub Search API

Let's have some command-line fun with curl, [jq][1], and the [new GitHub Search API][2].

Today we're looking for:

• The hottest repositories created in the last week.
• The oldest user accounts with zero followers. (So sad.)
• Issue trends by language.
• Clojure projects defying convention.

KATT

<?php
/**
 * Check if content is JSON
 *
 * @param string $content
 * @return boolean
 */
function w3_is_json($content) {
    return json_decode($content) !== NULL;
}