Aplicação web para coleta e visualização de dados de repositórios do GitHub

Abstract

GitHub, the largest collaborative development platform, provides a number of APIs for building scripts and applications that integrate with or extend its functionality. Some of these APIs provide data about repositories and the users who have favorited them, in the form of "stars," which serve as a measure of the community's interest in the project. There are sites that show the evolution of a repository's star count over time, but they have some limitations. The main one is that they work with a sample of the data, due to the limitations of GitHub's REST APIs, and also the fact that they don't return any data beyond the forty thousandth star, which affects the accuracy of the analysis to be made. With this in mind, it was proposed to develop an application using GitHub's GraphQL APIs as an alternative that does not have these limitations, allowing for a complete and accurate assessment of the number of stars in a given repository over time, enabling researchers and enthusiasts to gain different insights into their communities.