The popular GitHub API repository

Question

Do users have access to the "most popular" or "most viewed" repositories through the API? Like these pages.

github.com/popular/starred

github.com/languages/shell/most_watched

Answer 1

No: this is user centric, i.e. you get a repo tagged by users or user.

And don't forget what you call “watch” now “star” .

What used to be called Watching now plays a major role.
This is basically a way to bookmark interesting repositories. Surveillance is a way to indicate that you want to receive notifications by email or network in the repository.

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While the search GUI now provides “stars” as a sort order (see “ Get sorted github repository search results using the“ some ”attribute (number of forks or stars) , February 2013), the search API (port from V2 ) is the only one mentioning "stars" as a sort order for repositories .

GET /legacy/repos/search/:keyword?sort=stars 

(This should work for both public GH and GHE: GitHub for enterprise , but requires a keyword and does not follow page v3. This method returns up to 100 results per page, and pages can be retrieved using the start_page parameter.)