A ruby script to query the github search api that returns the most active public repos. Takes start and end dates, GH event name, and # of records.

gh_repo_stats.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "optparse"

options = {:after => nil, :before => nil, :event => nil, :count => nil}

parser = OptionParser.new do|opts|
	opts.banner = "Usage: gh_repo_stats --after AFTER_DATE --before BEFORE_DATE --event EVENT_NAME --count NUMBER_OF_RECORDS"
  opts.on('-a', '--after after', 'After') do |after|
		options[:after] = after;
	end
  opts.on('-b', '--before before', 'Before') do |before|
    options[:before] = before;
  end
  opts.on('-e', '--event event', 'Event') do |event|
    options[:event] = event;
  end
  opts.on('-c', '--count count', 'Count') do |count|
    options[:count] = count;
  end
	opts.on('-h', '--help', 'Displays Help') do
		puts opts
		exit
	end
end

parser.parse!

if options[:after] == nil
	print 'Enter start date in YYYY-MM-DD format: '
    options[:after] = gets.chomp
end

if options[:before] == nil
  print 'Enter end date in YYYY-MM-DD format: '
    options[:before] = gets.chomp
end

if options[:event] == nil
	print 'Enter an event (like push or c): '
		options[:before] = gets.chomp
end

if options[:count] == nil
	print 'How many records do you want to return? '
		options[:before] = gets.chomp
end

puts `curl -G -s https://api.github.com/search/repositories      								\
      --data-urlencode 'q=created:#{options[:after]}..#{options[:before]}'      \
			--data-urlencode 'per_page=#{options[:count]}'                           									\
      --data-urlencode 'sort=stars'                           									\
      --data-urlencode 'order=desc'                           									\
      | jq '.items[] | .name' -r`

Nice! Have you ever played with Thor? It's a great gem for building command-line tools in Ruby. Would cut the size of this code in half at least.